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... House of Commons , appears originally to have been to hear the propo- sals of the king and council regarding the subsidies required from the people ; and after due delibera- tion , and perhaps demurs on one part and con- cessions and ...
... House of Commons , appears originally to have been to hear the propo- sals of the king and council regarding the subsidies required from the people ; and after due delibera- tion , and perhaps demurs on one part and con- cessions and ...
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... Commons , soon prompted a recourse to the arts of corruption , by which , for a long period , the authority of the crown was upheld against the just claims of the people . The supplies which the Lower House , as a body , tenaciously ...
... Commons , soon prompted a recourse to the arts of corruption , by which , for a long period , the authority of the crown was upheld against the just claims of the people . The supplies which the Lower House , as a body , tenaciously ...
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... House of Commons , this one point at least is indisputable , that , from the earliest infancy of the constitution , the power of the House of Commons has been growing , till it has almost , like the rod of Aaron , absorbed its fellows ...
... House of Commons , this one point at least is indisputable , that , from the earliest infancy of the constitution , the power of the House of Commons has been growing , till it has almost , like the rod of Aaron , absorbed its fellows ...
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... House of Commons became still more separated in feeling and in- terest from the great mass of the nation ; acquired the haughtiness of a privileged independent body ; deliberated with closed doors ; would not admit their debates to be ...
... House of Commons became still more separated in feeling and in- terest from the great mass of the nation ; acquired the haughtiness of a privileged independent body ; deliberated with closed doors ; would not admit their debates to be ...
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... House of Commons , notwithstanding the indisputable importance of these benefits , there should be such tenacity in clinging to the privilege of deliberating in secrecy . Instead of the public having a legal right to enter the House ...
... House of Commons , notwithstanding the indisputable importance of these benefits , there should be such tenacity in clinging to the privilege of deliberating in secrecy . Instead of the public having a legal right to enter the House ...
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Page 358 - I know also that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths disclosed, and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times.
Page 408 - The pretended rights of these theorists are all extremes : and in proportion as they are metaphysically true, they are morally and politically false. The rights of men are in a sort of middle, incapable of definition, but not impossible to be discerned. The rights of men in governments are their advantages ; and these are often in balances between differences of good; in compromises sometimes between good and evil, and sometimes between evil and evil.
Page 353 - Surely every medicine is an innovation, and he that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator ; and if time of course alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end...
Page 407 - But he has not a right to an equal dividend in the product of the joint stock; and as to the share of power, authority, and direction which each individual ought to have in the management of the state, that I must deny to be amongst the direct original rights of man in civil society; for I have in my contemplation the civil social man, and no other. It is a thing to be settled by convention.
Page 135 - But his unbiassed opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you, to any man, or to any set of men living.
Page 410 - Sir, I think you must perceive that I am resolved this day to have nothing at all to do with the question of the right of taxation. Some gentlemen startle, but it is true. I put it totally out of the question. It is less than nothing in my consideration.
Page 354 - All this is true, if time stood still ; which contrariwise moveth so round, that a froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation ; and they that reverence too much old times, are but a scorn to the new.
Page 59 - How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Page 405 - Far am I from denying in theory ; full as far is my heart from withholding in practice, (if I were of power to give or, to withhold,) the real rights of men. In denying their false claims of right, I do not mean to injure those which are real, and are such as their pretended rights would totally destroy. 1f civil society be made for the advantage of man, all the advantages for which it is made become his right.
Page 347 - I was much acquainted with the leading patriots of the Assembly. Being from a country which had successfully passed through a similar reformation, they were disposed to my acquaintance, and had some confidence in me. I urged, most strenuously, an immediate compromise ; to secure what the government was now ready to yield, and trust to future occasions for what might still be wanting.