The Platform: Its Rise and Progress, Volume 1Macmillan and Company, 1892 - Great Britain |
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... electors of the mem- bers of the House of Commons , or lower House of Parliament , had a sort of recognised position ; and when any emergency arose , it was not unusual for the Lord - Lieutenant to convene the magistrates , and ...
... electors of the mem- bers of the House of Commons , or lower House of Parliament , had a sort of recognised position ; and when any emergency arose , it was not unusual for the Lord - Lieutenant to convene the magistrates , and ...
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... electors . In the metropolis the Platform was much used at election time . Here , in the three constituencies -the city of London , the city of Westminster , and the borough of Southwark , and sometimes , too , in the county of ...
... electors . In the metropolis the Platform was much used at election time . Here , in the three constituencies -the city of London , the city of Westminster , and the borough of Southwark , and sometimes , too , in the county of ...
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... electors in their choice of the component parts of the House of Commons - that is to say , in the election of the individual members of the House ; and the other , by influencing members once they were in the House , and thus ...
... electors in their choice of the component parts of the House of Commons - that is to say , in the election of the individual members of the House ; and the other , by influencing members once they were in the House , and thus ...
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... electors ; those who bid highest for the voices of the electors did obtain them ; and the House itself was the venal instrument of power to reduce the nation to the lowest state of misery and servitude - and the worst of the speech was ...
... electors ; those who bid highest for the voices of the electors did obtain them ; and the House itself was the venal instrument of power to reduce the nation to the lowest state of misery and servitude - and the worst of the speech was ...
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... electors to return them to Parlia- ment , and if the electors were willing to be bribed , and to leave their representatives a free hand in Parliament , what end was there to be to it ? Where could argument or reason or any- thing else ...
... electors to return them to Parlia- ment , and if the electors were willing to be bribed , and to leave their representatives a free hand in Parliament , what end was there to be to it ? Where could argument or reason or any- thing else ...
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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...