A History of England in the Eighteenth Century, Volume 3D. Appleton, 1882 - Great Britain |
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... bodies in Europe . It necessarily throws the rulers into the posture of self - defence , and makes them nervously and constantly jealous of their subjects . It produces reactions in which the most important reforms are endangered ...
... bodies in Europe . It necessarily throws the rulers into the posture of self - defence , and makes them nervously and constantly jealous of their subjects . It produces reactions in which the most important reforms are endangered ...
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... will and is at the same time the most powerful body in the State , may be easily proved . In the great majority of cases he must necessarily be a man of very ordinary ability , and even were it otherwise , his exclusion from Parliament.
... will and is at the same time the most powerful body in the State , may be easily proved . In the great majority of cases he must necessarily be a man of very ordinary ability , and even were it otherwise , his exclusion from Parliament.
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... body , restricted in its functions and authority . He may even retain it , though more precariously , when Parliament has become the strongest body of the State , if the composition of that Parliament is so ex- clusive or aristocratic ...
... body , restricted in its functions and authority . He may even retain it , though more precariously , when Parliament has become the strongest body of the State , if the composition of that Parliament is so ex- clusive or aristocratic ...
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... body by summoning previously unrepresented towns to send members to Parliament , was in theory untouched by the Revolution , and no less a writer than Locke defended the pro- priety of extinguishing the rotten boroughs and readjusting ...
... body by summoning previously unrepresented towns to send members to Parliament , was in theory untouched by the Revolution , and no less a writer than Locke defended the pro- priety of extinguishing the rotten boroughs and readjusting ...
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... parliamentary history of England . All the measures that were carried or attempted with the object of purifying the representative body CH . X. HIS HATRED OF REFORM . 2 15 14 CH . X. ENGLAND IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY .
... parliamentary history of England . All the measures that were carried or attempted with the object of purifying the representative body CH . X. HIS HATRED OF REFORM . 2 15 14 CH . X. ENGLAND IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY .
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Page 338 - At the same time let the sovereign authority of this country over the colonies be asserted in as strong terms as can be devised, and be made to extend to every point of legislation whatsoever. That we may bind their trade, confine their manufactures, and exercise every power whatsoever, except that of taking their money out of their pockets without their consent.
Page 337 - Taxation is no part of the governing or legislative power. The taxes are a voluntary gift and grant of the Commons alone. In legislation the three estates of the realm are alike concerned ; but the concurrence of the peers and the Crown to a tax is only necessary to clothe it with the form of a law. The gift and grant is of the Commons alone.
Page 203 - Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests, which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole — where not local purposes, not local prejudices, ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member, indeed; but when you have chosen him he is not a member of Bristol,...
Page 393 - I can take upon me to assure you, notwithstanding insinuations to the contrary from men with factious and seditious views, that his Majesty's present administration have at no time entertained a design to propose to Parliament to lay any further taxes upon America for the purpose of raising a revenue...