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... rejected all its excellences and advantages . " + " I allow , " said Grattan , " the British Constitution the best , and I arraign this model as the worst because practi- cally and essentially the opposite of that British Constitution ...
... rejected all its excellences and advantages . " + " I allow , " said Grattan , " the British Constitution the best , and I arraign this model as the worst because practi- cally and essentially the opposite of that British Constitution ...
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... rejected , amended , or altered , but that when they had passed the great seal of England no alteration could be made by the Irish Parliament . " † A difference so striking between the Consti- tutions of Great Britain and Ireland could ...
... rejected , amended , or altered , but that when they had passed the great seal of England no alteration could be made by the Irish Parliament . " † A difference so striking between the Consti- tutions of Great Britain and Ireland could ...
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... reject them . This was a miserable state of Ireland , and in this state it would remain as long as a monster unknown to the Con- stitution a British Attorney - General , through the influence of the law of Poynings , had power to alter ...
... reject them . This was a miserable state of Ireland , and in this state it would remain as long as a monster unknown to the Con- stitution a British Attorney - General , through the influence of the law of Poynings , had power to alter ...
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... rejected in the very words even to a tittle , as they are laid before our Par- liament , we cannot alter the least iota . If , therefore , the legislature of Ireland stand on this foot in relation . to the king and the Parliament of ...
... rejected in the very words even to a tittle , as they are laid before our Par- liament , we cannot alter the least iota . If , therefore , the legislature of Ireland stand on this foot in relation . to the king and the Parliament of ...
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... rejecting them in toto . Can the wisdom of the English Constitution appear in a clearer light than in this very instance - that of placing the power of originating laws in that very body of men that must necessarily be best acquainted ...
... rejecting them in toto . Can the wisdom of the English Constitution appear in a clearer light than in this very instance - that of placing the power of originating laws in that very body of men that must necessarily be best acquainted ...
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