The Platform: Its Rise and Progress, Band 1Macmillan and Company, 1892 |
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... freedom of complaint , even against the great authori- ties of the State , it was further enacted that all commitments to prison , or even prosecutions for such petitioning , were illegal . Petitions in the earlier times were usually ...
... freedom of complaint , even against the great authori- ties of the State , it was further enacted that all commitments to prison , or even prosecutions for such petitioning , were illegal . Petitions in the earlier times were usually ...
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... freedom of speech was watched with hostile eyes . Moreover , it brought them together for a common object , it gave them the opportunity of presenting to the governing powers of King and Parliament views which otherwise could not have ...
... freedom of speech was watched with hostile eyes . Moreover , it brought them together for a common object , it gave them the opportunity of presenting to the governing powers of King and Parliament views which otherwise could not have ...
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... freedom is the first privilege of a mem- ber of Parliament , and , therefore , I hope I may give no offence whatsoever . I am sure I never intended it ; yet I am very sensible that , while I have sat in Parliament , I have given offence ...
... freedom is the first privilege of a mem- ber of Parliament , and , therefore , I hope I may give no offence whatsoever . I am sure I never intended it ; yet I am very sensible that , while I have sat in Parliament , I have given offence ...
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... freedom of speech , and of its use ; that all the ways and manners of life and business in England had in them decided tendencies towards associations , meetings , and speeches ; and finally , that the self - governing genius of the ...
... freedom of speech , and of its use ; that all the ways and manners of life and business in England had in them decided tendencies towards associations , meetings , and speeches ; and finally , that the self - governing genius of the ...
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... freedom of this House is the freedom of this country , which can continue no longer than while the voices of the electors are uninfluenced by any base or venal motive . For if abilities and integrity are no recommendation to the ...
... freedom of this House is the freedom of this country , which can continue no longer than while the voices of the electors are uninfluenced by any base or venal motive . For if abilities and integrity are no recommendation to the ...
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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...