The Platform: Its Rise and Progress, Band 1Macmillan and Company, 1892 |
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... attempt to graft a system of democratic government on the ancient constitution of this kingdom -or , in other words , is an attempt at a solution of the great problem of popular government which has in recent times come into such ...
... attempt to graft a system of democratic government on the ancient constitution of this kingdom -or , in other words , is an attempt at a solution of the great problem of popular government which has in recent times come into such ...
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... Attempt to suppress petitioning by prosecution in Law Courts 325 Parliamentary Reform 329 Renewal of Suspension of Habeas Corpus Act 329 The Nottingham Rising 330 Arrests under the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act 331 The Platform again ...
... Attempt to suppress petitioning by prosecution in Law Courts 325 Parliamentary Reform 329 Renewal of Suspension of Habeas Corpus Act 329 The Nottingham Rising 330 Arrests under the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act 331 The Platform again ...
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... Attempt to obtain Repeal of the Seditious Meetings Prevention Act 440 Agricultural distress and Parliamentary Reform 441 Progress of the cause of Reform 442 Description of a County Meeting in 1822 444 The Platform in 1823 . 447 A ...
... Attempt to obtain Repeal of the Seditious Meetings Prevention Act 440 Agricultural distress and Parliamentary Reform 441 Progress of the cause of Reform 442 Description of a County Meeting in 1822 444 The Platform in 1823 . 447 A ...
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... attempt at its violation by the Sovereign in 1688 - was secured by the Bill of Rights . This Magna Charta of the Revolution de- clared that it was " the right " of the subject to petition the King or either House of Parliament ; and in ...
... attempt at its violation by the Sovereign in 1688 - was secured by the Bill of Rights . This Magna Charta of the Revolution de- clared that it was " the right " of the subject to petition the King or either House of Parliament ; and in ...
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... attempts made to suppress free speech , no attempt was ever made to interfere with public meetings or free speech at the time of an election . In a more or less nebulous sort of way it had thus existed for a considerable period , though ...
... attempts made to suppress free speech , no attempt was ever made to interfere with public meetings or free speech at the time of an election . In a more or less nebulous sort of way it had thus existed for a considerable period , though ...
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abuses Address adopted agitation assembled attended Bill boroughs Burdett called candidates cause Committee conduct Constitution contest Corn Laws corruption county meeting Crown declared discussion distress effect electors England existence expression favour feelings freedom freeholders gentlemen give Government grievances Habeas Corpus Act high treason Horace Walpole House of Commons House of Lords House of Parliament hustings Ibid influence interest King kingdom large number libel liberty London London Corresponding Society Lord Castlereagh Lord North Lord Sidmouth magistrates Manchester measures meeting was held members of Parliament ment Middlesex Ministers Ministry nation never object occasion opinion Parlia Parliamentary Debates Parliamentary History Parliamentary reform passed peace persons Petition Pitt Plat Platform Political Register popular present principles proceedings proposed public meetings question redress representation representatives resolutions riots rotten boroughs Seditious Meetings Sheriff speech spirit tion trial universal suffrage voice vote Westminster Whig whole wrote
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 71 - Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Seite 70 - Certainly, Gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents.
Seite 20 - Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton ; and the peculiar happiness of my life will ever consist in promoting the welfare of a people, whose loyalty and warm affection to me I consider as the greatest and most permanent security of my throne...
Seite 70 - ... live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinion high respect; their business unremitted attention.
Seite 88 - That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"?
Seite 71 - If the local constituent should have an interest, or should form an hasty opinion, evidently opposite to the real good of the rest of the community, the member for that place ought to be as far, as any other, from any endeavour to give it effect.
Seite 56 - The power of the Crown, almost dead and rotten as prerogative, has grown up anew, with much more strength and far less odium, under the name of influence.
Seite 102 - I do not here stand before you accused of venality, or of neglect of duty. It is not said, that, in the long period of my service, I have in a single instance sacrificed the slightest of your interests to my ambition, or to my fortune. It is not alleged, that to gratify any anger or revenge of my own, or of my party...
Seite 436 - The resources created by peace are means of war. In cherishing those resources, we but accumulate those means. Our present repose is no more a proof of inability to act, than the state of inertness and inactivity in which...
Seite 133 - II. st. 1, c. 5, that no petition to the king, or either house of parliament, for alteration of matters established by law in church or state...