Law, how to be administered, 13; wiser than those who administer it, 14; principle of the supremacy of the law, 14, 103-107, 111, 114; just and equal laws, 31, 35, 36, 37, 152; equality before the law, 35, 36, 161; growing disregard of, 43, 201; touches every individual, 85. _See_ Common law, Due process of law, Fundamental laws, Law of the land, Justice, Judges, and Judiciary. Lawlessness, manifested in alleged reforms, 43; and in labor organizations, 150, 217; its growth in connection with the spread of socialism, 201. Law of the land, a phrase wiser than those who wrote it, 5; the epitome of ancient and forgotten wisdom, 5-6; guaranteed by Magna Carta, 9, 18, 21, 22; the equivalent of "due process of law" (q.v.), 18; meaning, 18, 19, 21, 22; in American constitutions, 18-19, 23-24; in the Petition of Right, 23. Lawyers, _see_ Bar. Lecky, W.E.H., 164. Legislation, formerly not a panacea for all ills, 9; practical reforms needed, 44, 205-206; alleged social legislation, 49-54, 153, 154; particular legislation criticized as being arbitrary, crude, experimental, meddlesome, and oppressive, 52, 80, 82, 120-125, 163, 245; a rule of construction, 154-155; necessity for exact language, 208; great volume of statutes, 204, 208. _See_ Class legislation and Social legislation. Legislature, taxation originally its chief function, 9; limitations upon, 43-46, 51, 70, 71, 78, 81, 124; corruption charged by social reformers, 44; abandoning constitutional questions to the courts, 47; duty to apply constitutional principles, 52; supreme in its sphere, 52; power to protect the public health, 59, 60. _See_ Constitutional limitations, Legislation, and Congress. Leroy-Beaulieu, Pierre Paul, 166. Liberty, Civil, guaranteed by Magna Carta, 1, 4, 5; Declaration of Independence, 4, 81; early charters of the French kings, 5; writ of habeas corpus its bulwark, 15, 16; conditions necessary for its perpetuation, 26, 36, 37; guaranteed by the Constitution, 51, 76; legislative interference with, 74, 80; of vital concern to everyone, 84; guarded by the common law, 98; its essence, 124; some political documents, 203; threatened by temporary majorities (q.v.), 211. Liberty, Constitutional, Justice Story on, 25; in the custody of the American people, 26; the Pilgrim Fathers assist at its birth in America, 30.