Take Your Choice!: Representation and Respect, Imposition and Contempt; Annual Parliaments and Liberty, Long Parliaments and Slavery (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Frdej men, and the: immediate guardians of public liberty than having place amongit nobles, orabein'g feated on an hereditary throne itfelf. But, iffi there be any part of that houfé, whichis not {cruples not to acknowledge, that it moves, and evér Will move, his indignation and contempt, and excite his abhorrence. And he knows of no obligation which a Briton is under, not to ex pofe and condemn any thing whatever in the legiflature of his country, which is a palpable departure from the conftitution, and threaten ing to public freedom. With regard to the Houfe of Commons, he would facrifice a great deal, to be able to prove his own words a libel. He pretends not to write to philofo phers and men of letters, fo much as to his fellow citizens at large. 'for-the former, the abf'traét elements of parliamentary fcience.

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