A Short Letter to a Friend in the Country, Upon the Question of Reform, and the Disturbances in the Metropolis (Classic Reprint) - Softcover
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England too the first step is taken, they will con gratulate their master on the successive massacres and the final despotism whith we should have to wade through and to support.
To enquire after the actual formula of the privi lege and power thus lately exercised by the House of Commons, is an investigation deeper than I have pretensions to direct; nor need I assume that there are recorded statutes to guide me. It is, at least, apower not more undefined than much of our common law: it is as venerable as any custom can be traced in its practice, nor has it ever been called forth with more necessity, or pointed with more temper and moderation than in the instances which have provoked this discussion.
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