The Platform: Its Rise and Progress, Հատոր 1Macmillan and Company, 1892 |
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... ment then generally continuing to the full term of its pre- scribed existence of seven years ; and it was only in the case of contested elections that more than a nominal or formal recourse was had to the Platform . In those few cases ...
... ment then generally continuing to the full term of its pre- scribed existence of seven years ; and it was only in the case of contested elections that more than a nominal or formal recourse was had to the Platform . In those few cases ...
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... ment equal to great cities ; and it is contrary to the maxim that power should follow property . Therefore , it becomes you of the Livery of London to be extremely upon your guard , as you have been on the present occasion , to choose ...
... ment equal to great cities ; and it is contrary to the maxim that power should follow property . Therefore , it becomes you of the Livery of London to be extremely upon your guard , as you have been on the present occasion , to choose ...
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... ment . These were the great contributing 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 ...
... ment . These were the great contributing 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 ...
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... ment boroughs - a proceeding which was then feasible , owing to the extraordinary system of popular representation existing at the time . At last the final blow of the change of policy was struck , and in October Pitt , the great ...
... ment boroughs - a proceeding which was then feasible , owing to the extraordinary system of popular representation existing at the time . At last the final blow of the change of policy was struck , and in October Pitt , the great ...
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... ment , without long years of suffering , persecution , and grievous trials , that the people at last made good their right to the Plat- form as the medium of the expression of their will , as the instrument for supplying the ...
... ment , without long years of suffering , persecution , and grievous trials , that the people at last made good their right to the Plat- form as the medium of the expression of their will , as the instrument for supplying the ...
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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...