The Platform: Its Rise and Progress, Հատոր 1Macmillan and Company, 1892 |
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... majority of cases , it was little more than a form . But of the Platform itself in these times , and on these occa- sions , little is to be gathered from contemporary writings , for the speeches , so far as the elections in the country ...
... majority of cases , it was little more than a form . But of the Platform itself in these times , and on these occa- sions , little is to be gathered from contemporary writings , for the speeches , so far as the elections in the country ...
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... majority of the House of Commons , and therefore , in effect , the House itself , was a pliant instrument in the hands of the Ministers of the Crown , and must practically be reckoned among the foes of the Platform and popular action ...
... majority of the House of Commons , and therefore , in effect , the House itself , was a pliant instrument in the hands of the Ministers of the Crown , and must practically be reckoned among the foes of the Platform and popular action ...
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... majority of 82 , " which is a much smaller one than one could either wish or expect on such an occasion . " Expelling him was one thing , preventing his re- election was quite another . He offered himself again for elec- tion , and in ...
... majority of 82 , " which is a much smaller one than one could either wish or expect on such an occasion . " Expelling him was one thing , preventing his re- election was quite another . He offered himself again for elec- tion , and in ...
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... majority have not petitioned . The Court will , nay must , re- sist the dissolution of the Parliament . " But alarmed as the Court was , and irritated as Ministers were , the King in his speech at the beginning of the session , which ...
... majority have not petitioned . The Court will , nay must , re- sist the dissolution of the Parliament . " But alarmed as the Court was , and irritated as Ministers were , the King in his speech at the beginning of the session , which ...
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... majority of freeholders had signed these Petitions without influence or solicitation , the majority , even of this class , is no better than an ignorant multitude whom it is absurd in the highest degree to suppose capable of deciding ...
... majority of freeholders had signed these Petitions without influence or solicitation , the majority , even of this class , is no better than an ignorant multitude whom it is absurd in the highest degree to suppose capable of deciding ...
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Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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...
Էջ 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.
Էջ 88 - That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"?
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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...
Էջ 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...
Էջ 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...