The state of the nation, in a series of letters to the duke of Bedford1805 |
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... Boroughs , might be gratified with the plunder of their country . LETTER III . IT MY LORD , T may not be unworthy of your Grace's observa- tion , how dangerous it is for the real friends of liberty ever to repose political and ...
... Boroughs , might be gratified with the plunder of their country . LETTER III . IT MY LORD , T may not be unworthy of your Grace's observa- tion , how dangerous it is for the real friends of liberty ever to repose political and ...
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... Borough system of Representation ; which I cannot so well con- trast with the natural effects of a genuine Constitu- tional system of Representation ; as in the words of Mr. Jefferson , who on the 4th of March , 1805 , spoke to the two ...
... Borough system of Representation ; which I cannot so well con- trast with the natural effects of a genuine Constitu- tional system of Representation ; as in the words of Mr. Jefferson , who on the 4th of March , 1805 , spoke to the two ...
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... boroughs , and those of their connections , can irresistibly com- mand the decisions of the house of commons ; that is , who , by usurpation and faction , can confer on them- selves absolute power ; and that party leaders , who have ...
... boroughs , and those of their connections , can irresistibly com- mand the decisions of the house of commons ; that is , who , by usurpation and faction , can confer on them- selves absolute power ; and that party leaders , who have ...
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... borough foundation , and a coalition of dis- cordances , is quite in the spirit of the stupid pretences in the year 1716 , in favour of septennial parliaments ; ' nor were such arguments ever heard of , until the true . constitutional ...
... borough foundation , and a coalition of dis- cordances , is quite in the spirit of the stupid pretences in the year 1716 , in favour of septennial parliaments ; ' nor were such arguments ever heard of , until the true . constitutional ...
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... Borough mongers crouch at his feet , and submissively surrender up their usurpations . And if this cannot be ... boroughs and all its other dependencies were regularly ceded , and posses- sion was taken . Now , my Lord , as effects must ...
... Borough mongers crouch at his feet , and submissively surrender up their usurpations . And if this cannot be ... boroughs and all its other dependencies were regularly ceded , and posses- sion was taken . Now , my Lord , as effects must ...
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