GOVERNMENTS AND LAWS EXHIBITING THE GOVERNMENTAL STRUCTURES OF ANCIENT AND MODERN STATES, THEIR GROWTH AND DECAY AND THE LEADING BY STEPHEN HALEY ALLEN "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" "Mens, et animus, et consilium et sententia civitatis, posita est in legibus." PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS PRINCETON Sales Agents for the Author 208 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION.-PARENTAL AUTHORITY. PUBLIC REG- ULATION OF PRIVATE MORALS. PUBLIC REGULATION OF THE FAMILY. CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. LEGISLATIVE MORALITY. LEGISLATIVE EXPEDIENTS. JUDICIAL FUNC- TIONS. EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS. CHECKS AND BAL- 359593 XXVI. MODERN MEXICO, CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICAN STATES. GENERALIZATIONS.-POVERTY OF HISTORY. METHODS OF ACQUIRING AND CONFERRING POLITICAL POWER. METHODS OF AND PRINCIPLES APPLICABLE TO THE SELECTION OF PUBLIC OFFICERS. DIRECT LEGISLATION. INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM. CHANGES IN THE FORMS AND FUNCTIONS OF GOVERNMENTS. METHODS OF ORIGINATING LAWS. PURPOSES OF LAWS AND MOTIVES PROMPTING THEIR ENACTMENT. PUNISHMENT. TAXATION. PERSONAL STATUS. FAMILY RELATIONS. LAND LAWS. INHERITANCE. CONTRACTS. COMBINATIONS. CODE OF HAMMURABI.-Babylon. APPENDIX LAWS OF XII TABLES.—Rome. CODE OF MANU.-India. INSTITUTES OF JUSTINIAN. PENAL CODE OF CHINA. CIVIL CODE OF FRANCE. CIVIL CODE OF GERMANY. MAGNA CHARTA.—England. CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. |