Legislative Power, over charters, defined, 5; restriction imposed upon, 23.
Legislature, Acts of. See Acts of Legislature.
Legislature, power of King over corporations, limited by, 5;
power of, to create corporations, 5;
power of, over charters, limited, 6;
cannot resume grants of land given for educational or religious
purposes, 13;
power of, to affect individual rights, 15;
cannot repeal statutes creating private corporations, 20;
power of, restrained by Ordinance of 1787, 234.
Legislatures, to support the Constitution of United States, 286.
Leigh, Mr., 412.
Letters of Marque, against France, asked by President Jackson, 420.
Liberties, defined, 11.
Liberty, love of religious, 29; characteristics of, 122; the contests for, 385; principles of American, 536; of Greece, Rome, and America, 641, 642.
Lincolnshire, Pilgrims in, 30.
Literature, its advantages in public life, 174; progress in, 649.