The Platform: Its Rise and Progress, Volume 1Macmillan and Company, 1892 - Great Britain |
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... object , it gave them the opportunity of presenting to the governing powers of King and Parliament views which otherwise could not have reached those great authorities , and , fenced round as it was with immunity from punishment , it ...
... object , it gave them the opportunity of presenting to the governing powers of King and Parliament views which otherwise could not have reached those great authorities , and , fenced round as it was with immunity from punishment , it ...
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... objects had been in some small measure already suggested to them . Nor is it , I think , too much to say that the whole of the natural tendencies and popular inclinations were towards " the Platform , " that the sentiments of the people ...
... objects had been in some small measure already suggested to them . Nor is it , I think , too much to say that the whole of the natural tendencies and popular inclinations were towards " the Platform , " that the sentiments of the people ...
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... object of the Platform has been to gain influence over the House of Commons . There were two ways by which that influence could be gained : the first by influencing the electors in their choice of the component parts of the House of ...
... object of the Platform has been to gain influence over the House of Commons . There were two ways by which that influence could be gained : the first by influencing the electors in their choice of the component parts of the House of ...
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... object of directly contesting and influencing the action of Parliament . Many people who up to this had been impas- sive and easy - going , felt the greatness of the provocation given them by the Government , and the importance of the ...
... object of directly contesting and influencing the action of Parliament . Many people who up to this had been impas- sive and easy - going , felt the greatness of the provocation given them by the Government , and the importance of the ...
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... objects are well chosen , rather more fond of the method of petition , be- cause it carries more the air of uniformity and concurrence , and being more out of the common road , and yet , I apprehend , constitutional enough , it will be ...
... objects are well chosen , rather more fond of the method of petition , be- cause it carries more the air of uniformity and concurrence , and being more out of the common road , and yet , I apprehend , constitutional enough , it will be ...
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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...