A Short Account of the Representation of Scotland, in the Parliament of Great Britain: With Outlines of a Plan for Its Reformation ... |
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... liable . MONTESQUIEU has predicted of the British Constitution : This beautiful system was invented first in the woods . As all human things have an end , it will lose its li- berty , it will perish . Have not Rome , Sparta , and ...
... liable . MONTESQUIEU has predicted of the British Constitution : This beautiful system was invented first in the woods . As all human things have an end , it will lose its li- berty , it will perish . Have not Rome , Sparta , and ...
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... others . Nor is it liable to the charge of bringing about , at first , a too extensive , and , therefore , ( as many contend ) an in- advisable change in the representation of the country . - Mr Roscoe * , and other 7.
... others . Nor is it liable to the charge of bringing about , at first , a too extensive , and , therefore , ( as many contend ) an in- advisable change in the representation of the country . - Mr Roscoe * , and other 7.
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... not be difficult to fore- see that the election itself would be ex- posed to gross abuse . An election , regulated as that of the sixteen peers of Scotland is by the 1st Cause of Abuse . 2d Cause , articles of Union , is certainly liable ...
... not be difficult to fore- see that the election itself would be ex- posed to gross abuse . An election , regulated as that of the sixteen peers of Scotland is by the 1st Cause of Abuse . 2d Cause , articles of Union , is certainly liable ...
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... liable to mismanagement . In the nomina- tion of one or two representatives it is , comparatively , easy for each of the electors to anticipate the result , and , acordingly , to tender his suffrage . But , in all elections where there ...
... liable to mismanagement . In the nomina- tion of one or two representatives it is , comparatively , easy for each of the electors to anticipate the result , and , acordingly , to tender his suffrage . But , in all elections where there ...
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... liable to prosecutions for debt , would obtain no personal credit , whatever their occupa tions might be ; and that a private gentleman's bond would now be more valuable than a nobleman's , since it could be sued and made heritable ...
... liable to prosecutions for debt , would obtain no personal credit , whatever their occupa tions might be ; and that a private gentleman's bond would now be more valuable than a nobleman's , since it could be sued and made heritable ...
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abuse admitted amendment appoint articles of Union ballot become bill boroughs Britain British causes circum constitution coun crown Debate declared diminished Duke Earl of Dysart Earl of Selkirk Earl of Sutherland elec election of peers evil heirs hereditary seat Hist House of Commons House of Lords Ireland Irish Union land land-tax letter liable liament Lord Godolphin Lords of Parliament Lordships Majesty manner Marquis of Annandale ment mode moners mons nobility of Scotland nobleman number of peers number of representatives number to sit object open election Parl Parlia Parliament of England Parliament of Scotland Peerage of Scot Peers of Scotland persons Privy-Council of Scotland Proof proposed reason reform regulated REPRESENTATION OF SCOTLAND resolutions right of sitting Robertson's Proceedings sent septennial Session shew sit and vote sitting in Parliament St Germains summoned tion treaty of Union trials of Peers twenty-five Peers undue influence Walpole writ
Popular passages
Page 64 - Majesty on or before the First Day of May next on which Day the Union is to take place shall declare under the Great Seal of England that it is expedient that the Lords of Parliament of England and Commons of the present Parliament of England should be the Members of the respective Houses of the First Parliament of Great Britain...
Page 65 - Union, be considered as peerages of the united kingdom ; and that the peers of Ireland shall, as peers of the united kingdom, be sued and tried as peers, except as aforesaid, and shall enjoy all privileges of peers as fully as the peers of Great Britain ; the right and privilege of sitting in the House of Lords, and the privileges depending thereon, and the right of sitting on the trial of peers, only excepted...
Page 63 - THAT by virtue of this Treaty, Of the Peers of Scotland at the time of the Union Sixteen shall be the number to Sit and Vote in the House of Lords...
Page 63 - January last it is provided that by virtue of the said treaty of the peers of Scotland at the time of the union sixteen shall be the number to sit and vote in the House of Lords and forty-five the number of the representatives of Scotland in the House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain...
Page 65 - Scotland and their successors to their honours and dignities shall from and after the union be peers of Great Britain and have rank and precedency next and immediately after the peers of the like orders and degrees in England at the time of the union and before all peers of Great Britain...
Page 30 - Bellum plusquam civile," as Lucan expresses it. Why could not faction find other advocates ? but among the uncertainties of the human state, we are doomed to number the instability of friendship.
Page 64 - Houses of the First Parliament of Great Britain for and on the Part of England...
Page 66 - That any person holding any peerage of Ireland now subsisting, or hereafter to be created, shall not thereby be disqualified from being elected to serve if he shall so think fit, or from serving or continuing to serve, if he shall so think fit, for any county, city, or borough of Great Britain, in the House of Commons of the united kingdom...
Page 66 - Lords Temporal of Ireland elected for life by the Peers of Ireland, shall be the Number to sit and vote on the Part of Ireland in the House of Lords of the Parliament of the United Kingdom; and one hundred Commoners...
Page 63 - Britain, until the parliament of Great Britain shall make further provision therein, a writ do issue under the great seal of the United Kingdom directed to the privy council of Scotland, commanding them to cause sixteen peers who are to sit in the house of lords to be summoned to parliament, and forty-five members to be elected to sit in the house of commons of the parliament of Great Britain...