A Genuine and Complete Collection of All the Protests Made in the House of Lords from 1641 - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1748 Excerpt: ... who hold certain Ossices therein specisied, as well.as those who hold any Ossices erected since that Time, are made incapable of sitting in tit Houfe of Commons; and' that whoever accepts of any Ossice or Employment under the Crown cannot sit jn that House till he has been're-' elected;'Now it appears to us, that all those good and laudable Provisions xaiy be render'd fruitless; that tht Houfe of Common! may be silled with Persons who are by Law incapable of sitting there; that the Electors may. be deprived of that reasonable Option which the Law, has given them, whether they will trust the same Persosti to represent them, after he has accepted an Employment,whom they elected to represent them when he had none; and all this may be effected by the single Expedient oft getting an Office or Employment to be held by some Person who is not a Member of the Houfe of Commons, in.. Trust for one who is. We shall not determine on publick Fame or private. Suspicion, whether all or some of these Abuses and Evasions of so many Acts of Parliament have prevail'd or not; but since it is evident, that they may be easily introduced under a-corrupt Administration,, we must be of Opinion, that a Law which would prevent them as effectually as, we believe, the Bill sent up by the Commons would have done, could not have me: with too great Encouragement from,this.House,nor havebeen passed too soon.. /My, Because it appears to us, that the Arguments used against this Bill, drawn from the Necessity or Expediency of preserving an Insluence to the Crown by the... Power os rewarding, are either not at all to the present P-urpose, or else are.applied to prove, that an Insluence) guarded against by. so many.solemn Acts of Parliament sliould be admitted by the Connivance of Parliament; an...

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