Colonial Australia, 1841-1874 |
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Page 342
... thought . They were about to create a convention in the country with no check whatever upon its democratic tendencies . . . . Property was everywhere admitted to be a check to the too democratic feelings of a country . He would go the ...
... thought . They were about to create a convention in the country with no check whatever upon its democratic tendencies . . . . Property was everywhere admitted to be a check to the too democratic feelings of a country . He would go the ...
Page 385
... thought that the Legislature was tinkering too much with the Constitution , and that , if any reform were needed , it should not be distributed through several Bills , but embodied in one . He was not opposed to the shortening of the ...
... thought that the Legislature was tinkering too much with the Constitution , and that , if any reform were needed , it should not be distributed through several Bills , but embodied in one . He was not opposed to the shortening of the ...
Page 439
... thought he should be able to show that those conditions were really in favour of those who desired to settle and ... thought that this principle was of vital importance to the bill . He had never thought that in the abstract it was ...
... thought he should be able to show that those conditions were really in favour of those who desired to settle and ... thought that this principle was of vital importance to the bill . He had never thought that in the abstract it was ...
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