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... nomination boroughs , or the pocket boroughs , as they are more generally called , is worse than even those that are influenced by corruption , for a candidate of the most opposite principles may some- times succeed in the latter , if ...
... nomination boroughs , or the pocket boroughs , as they are more generally called , is worse than even those that are influenced by corruption , for a candidate of the most opposite principles may some- times succeed in the latter , if ...
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... nomination of a noble marquis . This practice was common in the Irish counties , where they were , before the disfranchisement of the forty- shilling freeholders , registered among the mountain tenantry , whose yearly head rent did not ...
... nomination of a noble marquis . This practice was common in the Irish counties , where they were , before the disfranchisement of the forty- shilling freeholders , registered among the mountain tenantry , whose yearly head rent did not ...
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... nomination . Twenty - one peers and fourteen commoners dictate the return of all the forty - five representatives for ... nominated , or their return to parliament influenced , by one hundred and forty - four peers , and one hundred and ...
... nomination . Twenty - one peers and fourteen commoners dictate the return of all the forty - five representatives for ... nominated , or their return to parliament influenced , by one hundred and forty - four peers , and one hundred and ...
Page xlv
... nominated the pre- sent member for Dumbarton , has very little property in that county . In Lanarkshire , again , where the Hamil- tons did not return the last member , merely because they had not sir R. Archibald to return , the ...
... nominated the pre- sent member for Dumbarton , has very little property in that county . In Lanarkshire , again , where the Hamil- tons did not return the last member , merely because they had not sir R. Archibald to return , the ...
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... nomination , in the several places to be appointed by the magistrates who are to determine the same at the quarter sessions , and the final state of the poll is to be declared at noon on the sixth day after the nomination . The places ...
... nomination , in the several places to be appointed by the magistrates who are to determine the same at the quarter sessions , and the final state of the poll is to be declared at noon on the sixth day after the nomination . The places ...
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Popular passages
Page 17 - That in case the crown and imperial dignity of this realm shall hereafter come to any person not being a native of this kingdom of England this nation be not obliged to engage in any war for the defence of any dominions or territories which do not belong to the crown of England without the consent of Parliament.
Page 13 - Yet, nevertheless of late, divers commissions directed to sundry commissioners, in several counties with instructions have issued by means whereof your people have been in divers places assembled and required to lend certain sums of money unto your Majesty and many of them upon their refusal so to do have had an oath administered unto them not warrantable by the laws or statutes of this realm...
Page 15 - Parliament; and that none be called to make answer or take such oath, or to give attendance, or be confined, or otherwise molested or disquieted concerning the same or for refusal thereof; and that no freeman, in any such manner as is before mentioned, be imprisoned or detained...
Page 18 - That no person who has an office or place of profit under the King, or receives a pension from the crown, shall be capable of serving as a member of the house of commons.
Page 14 - By pretext whereof some of your majesty's subjects have been by some of the said commissioners put to death, when and where, if by the laws and statutes of the land they had deserved death, by the same laws and statutes also they might, and by no other ought to have been judged and executed...
Page 17 - That from and after the time that the further limitation by this Act shall take effect, all matters and things relating to the well governing of this kingdom, which are properly cognizable in the Privy Council by the laws and customs of this realm, shall be transacted there, aud all resolutions taken thereupon shall be signed by such of the Privy Council as shall advise and consent to the same.
Page 17 - Limitation shall take effect as aforesaid, no person born out of the Kingdoms of England, Scotland, or Ireland, or the Dominions thereunto belonging (although he be naturalised or made a Denizen, except such as are born of English parents) shall be capable to be of the Privy Council, or a Member of either House of Parliament, or to enjoy any Office or Place of Trust, either Civil or Military...
Page 17 - That no person who shall hereafter come to the possession of this Crown shall go out of the dominions of England, Scotland or Ireland without consent of Parliament.
Page 13 - England, it is declared and enacted, That no freeman may be taken or imprisoned, or be disseised of his freehold or liberties, or his free customs, or be outlawed or exiled, or in any manner destroyed, but by the lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land.
Page 18 - Judges' Commissions be made Quamdiu se bene gesserint, and their salaries ascertained and established ; but upon the Address of both Houses of Parliament it may be lawful to remove them.