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... never seized has been given from the first , as it is being given now , by the majority into whose hands they have resigned the power . From these conditions arises the problem of present politics which will be considered in the ...
... never seized has been given from the first , as it is being given now , by the majority into whose hands they have resigned the power . From these conditions arises the problem of present politics which will be considered in the ...
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... never did , never could , and never ought to repre- sent ' the people , ' in the sense of the numerical majority . Pitt , in his reforming days , and Fox are as clear upon this point as Burke or Peel or the Duke of Wellington . For ...
... never did , never could , and never ought to repre- sent ' the people , ' in the sense of the numerical majority . Pitt , in his reforming days , and Fox are as clear upon this point as Burke or Peel or the Duke of Wellington . For ...
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... never had been intended to be , a sort of arithmetical machine for counting heads ; and , upon the same principle , its members were not conceived as mere symbols of such and such a quantitative value . A member was not a delegate ; he ...
... never had been intended to be , a sort of arithmetical machine for counting heads ; and , upon the same principle , its members were not conceived as mere symbols of such and such a quantitative value . A member was not a delegate ; he ...
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... never dropped . In the circumstances of the great French war Fox imagined that he saw a repetition of those of the war with America ; in both he maintained that a contest which was unpopular and unjust had been perpetrated against the ...
... never dropped . In the circumstances of the great French war Fox imagined that he saw a repetition of those of the war with America ; in both he maintained that a contest which was unpopular and unjust had been perpetrated against the ...
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... never for one moment did the Whig ministry intend to alter the essential character of the House . In the changes they introduced they were bound , it is true , to be guided to some extent by considerations of property and numbers . But ...
... never for one moment did the Whig ministry intend to alter the essential character of the House . In the changes they introduced they were bound , it is true , to be guided to some extent by considerations of property and numbers . But ...
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