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... ment , which , according to Campbell , the historian of 1789 , was little better than the registry of Royal edicts ; nor is there occasion to follow it through the varying fortunes of its political existence , suspended or transferred ...
... ment , which , according to Campbell , the historian of 1789 , was little better than the registry of Royal edicts ; nor is there occasion to follow it through the varying fortunes of its political existence , suspended or transferred ...
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... ment that so represented a not inconsiderable nation . The explanation rests on the surface - the vices of conquest had survived its memory . The Irish Parliament at no time represented the Irish people . The House of Peers was either ...
... ment that so represented a not inconsiderable nation . The explanation rests on the surface - the vices of conquest had survived its memory . The Irish Parliament at no time represented the Irish people . The House of Peers was either ...
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... ment met on the 9th of October , 1781 , it did so in the presence of an armed nation . The demands of the Commons were not likely , under such circumstances , to be refused . On the 10th of October , Sir S. Bradstreet , the Recorder of ...
... ment met on the 9th of October , 1781 , it did so in the presence of an armed nation . The demands of the Commons were not likely , under such circumstances , to be refused . On the 10th of October , Sir S. Bradstreet , the Recorder of ...
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... ment of Great Britain to bind Ireland . He assured the House " delays were useless , for in the present state and disposition of Ireland , they might as well strive to make the Thames flow up Highgate Hill as attempt to legislate for ...
... ment of Great Britain to bind Ireland . He assured the House " delays were useless , for in the present state and disposition of Ireland , they might as well strive to make the Thames flow up Highgate Hill as attempt to legislate for ...
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... ment , " which was adopted without division . While these public expressions of mutual confidence were being exchanged , we are permitted to refer to a correspondence which throws much light on the matter , and which twenty years later ...
... ment , " which was adopted without division . While these public expressions of mutual confidence were being exchanged , we are permitted to refer to a correspondence which throws much light on the matter , and which twenty years later ...
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Page 110 - Britain ; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons of Great Britain, in Parliament assembled, had, hath, and of right ought to have, full Power and Authority to make Laws and Statutes of sufficient Force and Validity to bind the Colonies and People of America, Subjects of the Crown of Great Britain, in all cases whatsoever.
Page 113 - An act for the better securing the dependency of the kingdom of Ireland upon the crown of Great Britain...
Page 23 - That an humble address be presented to His Majesty, to return His Majesty the thanks of this House for his most gracious message to this House, signified by His Grace the Lord-lieutenant.
Page 97 - We have offered you our measure — you will reject it ; we deprecate yours— you will persevere. Having no hopes left to persuade or dissuade, and having discharged our duty, we shall trouble you no more, and, AFTER THIS DAY, SHALL NOT ATTEND THE HOUSE OF COMMONS I— Debates, vol.
Page 111 - That a claim of any body of men, other than the king, lords, and commons of Ireland to make laws to bind this kingdom, is unconstitutional, illegal, and a grievance.
Page 112 - That as Men and as Irishmen, as Christians and as protestants, we rejoice in the relaxation of the Penal Laws against our Roman Catlwlic fellow-subjects, and that we conceive the measure to be fraught with the happiest consequences to the union and prosperity of the inhabitants of Ireland.
Page 113 - Majesty's forces", being unlimited in duration, and defective in other instances, but passed in that shape from the particular circumstances of the times, is another just cause of discontent and jealousy in this kingdom. That we have submitted these...
Page 85 - That the representation of the people is attended with great and heavy charges and payments, in consequence of elections, and returns of Members to serve in Parliament, and that said abuses ought to be abolished.
Page 64 - The address being laid before the Lord-lieutenant, he replied — " That, under the impressions which I feel of my official duty, and of the oaths which I have taken as Chief Governor of Ireland, I am obliged to decline transmitting this address to Great Britain; for I cannot consider myself warranted to lay before the Prince of Wales, an address, purporting to invest his Royal Highness with power to take upon him the Government of this realm, before he shall be enabled by law so to do.