The Platform: Its Rise and Progress, Volume 1Macmillan and Company, 1892 - Great Britain |
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... Causes of the Revival of the Platform 258 Mr. Curwen's Anti - Bribery Bill 260 " The British Forum " Debating Society 261 Lord Grey on Outdoor Agitation 265 Distress and Luddite Disturbances in 1811-12 266 The General Election of 1812 ...
... Causes of the Revival of the Platform 258 Mr. Curwen's Anti - Bribery Bill 260 " The British Forum " Debating Society 261 Lord Grey on Outdoor Agitation 265 Distress and Luddite Disturbances in 1811-12 266 The General Election of 1812 ...
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... cause of Reform 442 Description of a County Meeting in 1822 444 The Platform in 1823 . 447 A Foreign Secretary's Platform Speech 451 The Platform at Political Banquets . 453 The expiration of the Seditious Meetings Prevention Act The ...
... cause of Reform 442 Description of a County Meeting in 1822 444 The Platform in 1823 . 447 A Foreign Secretary's Platform Speech 451 The Platform at Political Banquets . 453 The expiration of the Seditious Meetings Prevention Act The ...
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... causes to the Plat- form , the circumstances which created the need for it . In the " hustings " the people had an example - an imperfect and occasional one , but still an actual present example - of how they might attain to ...
... causes to the Plat- form , the circumstances which created the need for it . In the " hustings " the people had an example - an imperfect and occasional one , but still an actual present example - of how they might attain to ...
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... cause in discussing all the measures of the Government , and in informing such public opinion as there was of the merits or demerits of Government policy . But they were quite unable to cope successfully with the marshalled forces of ...
... cause in discussing all the measures of the Government , and in informing such public opinion as there was of the merits or demerits of Government policy . But they were quite unable to cope successfully with the marshalled forces of ...
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... cause of all the subsequent trouble , and voted by a mere resolution that having been expelled , he was incapa- ble of sitting in the same Parliament , and that " the election was therefore void . " This view was not accepted by the ...
... cause of all the subsequent trouble , and voted by a mere resolution that having been expelled , he was incapa- ble of sitting in the same Parliament , and that " the election was therefore void . " This view was not accepted by the ...
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Popular passages
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 88 - That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"?
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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...