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Consent, popular. See Popular 

 consent. 



Constitutional convention vote 

 deemed equivalent to plebis- 

 cite in American constitutional 

 theory, 117 (note). 



Courland, German population, 

 155. See also Baltic States. 



Danish West Indies, plebiscite 

 for annexation to United 

 States, 125, 172-173; assembly 

 vote on annexation in Den- 

 mark, 125 ; popular vote, 126. 



Danzig. See Versailles, Treaty 

 of. 



Declaration of the rights of man 

 and citizen, 24, 54. 



England, " Agreement of the 

 people" of 1647, 20, 23 (note). 



Esthonia. See Baltic States. 



fitats Generaux, registration of 

 treaties stipulating cession of 

 French territory, 47-50. 



Eupen. See Versailles, Treaty 

 of. 



Expatriation, enforced, 154. 



Feudalism, relation of seigneur 

 and vassal, 32-33 ; consent of 

 vassal to transfer of fief, 23, 

 46; relation of king, seigneur 

 and vassal, 33-34, 36; transfer 

 of territory, 33-36; definition 

 of people, 35, 27 ; consent of 

 entire French nation required 

 to cession of part of French 

 territory to foreign sover- 

 eignty, 46-47; popular consent 

 to change of allegiance, see 

 Bourgeoisie; fitats Generaux. 



Fief, alienation of. See Feudal- 

 ism. 



Finland, independence by assem- 

 bly vote, 155. 



France, plebiscite in internal af- 

 fairs (184&-1852), 23-27; revo- 

 lutionary, renounces conquest, 

 54; no conquest does not mean 

 no annexation, 76; revolution- 

 ary, passes decree promising 

 aid to all peoples seeking po- 

 litical freedom, 61 (note) ; 

 warned by England against 



intervention, 61 (note) ; asked 

 for aid by Republic of Rau- 

 racie, 62; revolutionary, passes 

 decree stipulating overthrow 

 of old, and establishment of 

 revolutionary, governments in 

 all countries where French 

 troops enter, 72; passes de- 

 cree threatening with death 

 attempt or proposal to cede 

 French territory, 79 (note). 

 Fulbert de Chartres, on relation 

 of vassal and liege lord. 34, 36. 



Geneva, assembly vote against 

 annexation to Savoy (1240), 

 44; annexation to France 

 (1798), 76 (note), 165. 



Germany, assembly votes of old 

 German tribes, 19-21 ; disap- 

 pearance of assemblies, 20, 

 196; peace with Allied and 

 Associated Powers, see Ver- 

 sailles, Treaty of. 



Gex, remonstrance of, 23-24. 



Gladstone, opposes plebiscite in 

 Heligoland, 112; favors pleb- 

 iscite in Alsace-Lorraine, 174- 

 176. 



Greece, ancient, assembly votes 

 in internal affairs, 16-19, 197- 

 198; no popular consent recog- 

 nized in foreign relations of, 



31. 



Grey, Sir Edward, on self-deter- 

 mination, 177. 



Gueronniere, de la, on cession 

 of French territory in feudal 

 times, 49. 



Guyenne, propoied cession by 

 France to England (1344), 

 46-47. 



Hall, W. E., on cession and 

 plebiscite, 1 71-172. 



Hawaiian Islands, plebiscite pro- 

 posed by Japan, opposed by 

 ITnited States. 173~^74- 



Heligoland, plebiscite proposed 

 for cession to Germany, iii~ 

 112. 188. 



Hershey, A. S., on cession and 

 plebiscite, I73- 



Hertling. Georg Friedrich von, 

 on self-determination, 178, 189. 



