As a great experiment in that world-lasting problem, the system which the British people have adopted, and are attempting to work out, must, whether it fails or whether it succeeds, attract the closest and most searching attention of rulers and peoples in other countries, and at later times than ours. It is, therefore, I venture to think, the more essential that the position, and power, and functions of the Platform, as an institution of government in this kingdom, should be clearly and distinctly defined. X. THE PLATFORM AT THE GENERAL ELECTION OF 1818. XI. THE THIRD SUPPRESSION OF THE PLATFORM. XIV. THE ROMAN CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION AGITATION. XV. THE FIRST REFORM ACT AGITATION. XVI. THE PLATFORM AFTER THE REFORM ACT. XXIV. CONCLUDING CONSIDERATIONS. THE PLATFORM-ITS RISE-TO ITS FIRST SUPPRESSION The Platform non-existent at end of Seventeenth Century. The Influence of the Religious Revival in the direction of the The Publication of Parliamentary Debates The Government's Views on Government |