The Development of Parliament During the Nineteenth CenturyLongmans, Green, and Company, 1895 - 183 pages |
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... population below the 40s . freeholders are said to have no voice or authority in our commonwealth ; and no account is made of them , but only to be ruled , and not to rule others . ' ( De Rep . Anglorum , ed . 1583 , pp . 35 and 33. ) J ...
... population below the 40s . freeholders are said to have no voice or authority in our commonwealth ; and no account is made of them , but only to be ruled , and not to rule others . ' ( De Rep . Anglorum , ed . 1583 , pp . 35 and 33. ) J ...
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... population of the country . Seventy of your members , ' as it is pathetically remarked in a petition presented to parliament in 1793 , are returned by thirty - five places . . . in which it would be to trifle with the patience of your ...
... population of the country . Seventy of your members , ' as it is pathetically remarked in a petition presented to parliament in 1793 , are returned by thirty - five places . . . in which it would be to trifle with the patience of your ...
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... But , as they were care- ful to explain , it was never their idea to accept 1 See the examples given by Russell in the same work . 2 either wealth or population as a sole and sufficient 20 THE FIRST STEP TOWARDS DEMOCRACY.
... But , as they were care- ful to explain , it was never their idea to accept 1 See the examples given by Russell in the same work . 2 either wealth or population as a sole and sufficient 20 THE FIRST STEP TOWARDS DEMOCRACY.
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Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson. 2 either wealth or population as a sole and sufficient basis of representation ; 1 ' wealth , probity , learn- ing , and wit ' are all to be considered ; more than one hundred seats are still preserved to the ...
Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson. 2 either wealth or population as a sole and sufficient basis of representation ; 1 ' wealth , probity , learn- ing , and wit ' are all to be considered ; more than one hundred seats are still preserved to the ...
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... population ; that the peace establishment maintained after 1815 was disproportionately large , and that this , together with the interest of the debt , and the payment in salaries , pensions , and sinecures , constituted an intolerable ...
... population ; that the peace establishment maintained after 1815 was disproportionately large , and that this , together with the interest of the debt , and the payment in salaries , pensions , and sinecures , constituted an intolerable ...
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