A History of England in the Eighteenth Century, Volume 3D. Appleton, 1882 - Great Britain |
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... liberty , whether in Parlia- ment or in the press , is only safe and permanently possible when oppositions are content to act within the lines of the Constitu- tion and the limits of the law , and the amount of freedom which any nation ...
... liberty , whether in Parlia- ment or in the press , is only safe and permanently possible when oppositions are content to act within the lines of the Constitu- tion and the limits of the law , and the amount of freedom which any nation ...
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... liberty . The position of the King in the Constitution resembles that of the Speaker in the House of Commons , and like that dignitary his political neutrality and the deference with which he is regarded contribute largely to his ...
... liberty . The position of the King in the Constitution resembles that of the Speaker in the House of Commons , and like that dignitary his political neutrality and the deference with which he is regarded contribute largely to his ...
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... liberty of the subject , and in the case of the Middlesex election to abridge the electoral rights of constituen- cies , and in the other paltry , violent , and arbitrary measures by which the country was inflamed and Wilkes was ...
... liberty of the subject , and in the case of the Middlesex election to abridge the electoral rights of constituen- cies , and in the other paltry , violent , and arbitrary measures by which the country was inflamed and Wilkes was ...
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... of all the various measures by which Pitt in 1794 and 1795 suspended almost See the calculations in Burke's Causes of the Present Discontents . 2 May's Const . Hist . i . 206 . every guarantee of the liberty of the subject ; he.
... of all the various measures by which Pitt in 1794 and 1795 suspended almost See the calculations in Burke's Causes of the Present Discontents . 2 May's Const . Hist . i . 206 . every guarantee of the liberty of the subject ; he.
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William Edward Hartpole Lecky. every guarantee of the liberty of the subject ; he described the Test and Corporation Acts as the palladium of the con- stitution , and was inexorably opposed to their abolition ; he created Tory peers in ...
William Edward Hartpole Lecky. every guarantee of the liberty of the subject ; he described the Test and Corporation Acts as the palladium of the con- stitution , and was inexorably opposed to their abolition ; he created Tory peers in ...
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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...