Thoughts on the Constitution: With a View to the Proposed Reform in the Representation of the People, and Duration of Parliaments (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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But having acknowledged the natural equality of man; that all authority is de rived from the people, and ought to be exercifed for their good, I (hall go no far ther. Whether the people may throw of? An authority once rightfully efiablithed, and change the forms Of Government at their pleafure, It Is wholly foreign to my prefent purpofe to enquire: For I am fully fatisfied there is no man mad enough to with for a change in the Confiitution of'thefe King doms. A Government by King, Lords, and an Affembly reprefentative of the Peo ple Is the birthright of every Englifhman, and what no Englilhman will content to relinquifh.

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