Appointing power of Speaker of House, [103]; history of, of Speaker, [104]; accustomed use of, for party ends, [108].
Appropriation, bills, "general," [150]; former methods of, [151]; stinginess of Congress in, [152], [159]; bills, reported at any time, [153]; bills, specially debated, [78], [154], [155], [183], [184]; bills, in the Senate, [155-158].
Appropriations, debate of, [78], [154], [155], [183], [184]; "white-button mandarins" of Committee on, [111]; Committee on, consider estimates, [149]; "permanent," [152], [153]; Committee on, controls only annual grants, [153]; semi-annual, [159]; Committees on, relations between, and financial officers of the govt., [160-164]; reports of Committee on, preferred to reports of Committee of Ways and Means, [174], [183], [184].
Audit of public accounts in England, [144]; in U. S., [175-179].
Bagehot, Walter, on living reality and paper description of English Constitution, [10]; description of Parliament by, applied to Congress, [44]; on time required for opinions, [130]; on public opinion, [187]; on House of Lords, [220]; on bicameral system, [221], [222]; on technicalities of constitutional interpretation in U. S., [243]; on questions asked in the Commons, [300]; on influence of Geo. III. on Constitution of U. S., [309]; on multiplicity of authorities in American Constitution, [309], [310].
Balance, between state and federal powers, See 'Federal and State governments;' between judiciary and other branches of federal govt., 34 et seq.; between state legislatures and the Senate, [40]; of the people against their representatives, [40]; of presidential electors against the people, [40]; between Executive and Congress, [41]; between Senate and House of Representatives, real, [228].
Balances of the Constitution, ideal, [52]; present state of, [53]; at variance with inevitable tendency to exalt representative body, [311].
Bank of the U. S., [22].
Bicameral system, utility of a, [219] et seq.
Bill of Rights, and the Constitution of the U. S., [7].