Observations to Show That Reform (Immediate and Comprehensive): Is Essential to the Restitution of the Peoples' Rights, and to Prevent the Dissolution of the Constitution (Classic Reprint) by Unknown Author (Paperback / softback, 2015)
Excerpt from Observations to Show That Reform, (Immediate and Comprehensive): Is Essential to the Restitution of the Peoples' Rights, and to Prevent the Dissolution of the Constitution Previously to considering what plan of Reform will probably be submitted to the legislature, and whether the Ballot be t an essential auxiliary to any plan of reform, it may t be without its use, briefly to contrast the spirit of the democratical part of our constitution, or what that constitution ought to be again rendered by parliamentary reform - with what it has become by the influence of time, corruption, and fraud, and still continues to be in practice, to its own degradation, and to the injury of the people. For that purpose, it will be sufficient to refer, on the one hand, to a work of the very highest and unimpeached authority - the masterly commentaries of Sir William Blackstone, on our laws and constitution; and, on the other, to the cautiously framed, and comprehensive petition, which, in the month of May, 1793, was presented to the house of commons, by Mr. - w Earl - Grey, the head of the present administration, and the alleged facts in which petition were then offered to be substantiated on oath, at the bar of that house. The learned commentator lays it down that No subject of England can be constrained to pay any aids or taxes, even for the defence of the realm, or the support of government, but such as are imposed by his own consent or that of his representatives in parliament. And again, Only such are excluded (from voting) as can have will of their own; there is hardly a free person to be found, who is t entitled to a vote in some place or other in the kingdom. (Vol. I. pp. 140. 172.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.