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... give my authorities fully and correctly . That I have avoided errors altogether I cannot venture to anticipate ; I can only hope that they may be few , and apologise for them beforehand . KING'S COLLEGe , Cambridge . CONTENTS CHAPTER I ...
... give my authorities fully and correctly . That I have avoided errors altogether I cannot venture to anticipate ; I can only hope that they may be few , and apologise for them beforehand . KING'S COLLEGe , Cambridge . CONTENTS CHAPTER I ...
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... give his vote freely , and without influence of any kind , then , upon the true theory and genuine principles of liberty , every member of the community , however poor , should have a vote in electing those delegates to whose charge is ...
... give his vote freely , and without influence of any kind , then , upon the true theory and genuine principles of liberty , every member of the community , however poor , should have a vote in electing those delegates to whose charge is ...
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... gives us , without the necessity of an appeal to history , the following remarkable results : ' At no time have the constituent members of the governing body , at no time has the monarch , at no time has the hereditary aristocracy , at ...
... gives us , without the necessity of an appeal to history , the following remarkable results : ' At no time have the constituent members of the governing body , at no time has the monarch , at no time has the hereditary aristocracy , at ...
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... gives their most distinguished ornaments to science , and art , and to legislation itself , to everything which exalts and refines human nature , is that part of the community of which , if the basis of representa- tion were now so far ...
... gives their most distinguished ornaments to science , and art , and to legislation itself , to everything which exalts and refines human nature , is that part of the community of which , if the basis of representa- tion were now so far ...
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... gives the number of pocket boroughs as 42 , returning 69 members as repre- sentatives of a population of 370,200 . These 69 members , he adds , counterbalance the representatives of 36 great boroughs with a popu- lation of 4,638,000 ...
... gives the number of pocket boroughs as 42 , returning 69 members as repre- sentatives of a population of 370,200 . These 69 members , he adds , counterbalance the representatives of 36 great boroughs with a popu- lation of 4,638,000 ...
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