The Debate at Large, Between the Lords and Commons at the Free Conference Held Inthe Painted Chamber, Inthe Session of the Convention Anno 1688 ... the Vacancy of the Throne in the Commons Vote - 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. 1710 Excerpt: ... To take upon him the Administration of the Government, and thereby provide for the Safety and Peace of the Kingdom: Yet there can be ho Inference drawn from thence, but only that the Exercise of the Government by King James the Second, was ceased; so, as the Lords were, and are willing, To secure the Nation ageinst the Return of the said King into this Kingdom; but not that there was eitner such an Abdication by him, or Vacancy in the Throne, as that the Crown thereby became Elective; to which they cannot agree. I desire now to know of your Lordships, What part of this Reason hath given an Answer to what the Commons laid in'their First Reason; That they may very west conclude from their own Vote, as to what your Lordships have therein agreed to, That the Throne is Vacant, as to King James the Second; Deserting the Government, arjd Deserting the Tbronet being, in true Construction, the fame. fame. Instead of answering this Reason, your Lordship come jnd apply it here, only to a bare Giving over the Exercise of the Government by King James: And, pray, my Lords, let us consider where we are. If the Cafe be so, then King James the Second, who his only left the Exercise, continuei in the Office, and is King still; and then all the Acts that we have done an xhisConventwn, are wholly (as we conceive) not Justifiable; You are in no Place or Station to relieve your selves, or Nation, in this Exigence; unless you will think of setting up another Regency1 by your own Authority, without his Consent; which, I conceive, by the Laws of England, you cannot do.. What then follows upon all we have done? We have drawn the Nation into a Snare, by the Steps we have taken; and leave all in such an Intricacy, as we have no Power, by Law, to deliver them out ofy nor can we answer...

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