...have occurred; but it did not fairly represent them. In the words of the younger William Pitt: "The House is not the representative of the people of Great...families, of wealthy individuals, of foreign potentates." In a population of 8,000,000 of English people, only 160,000 had the right of suffrage. The details...

...words of the younger William Pitt, "The House is not the representative of the people of Great Britian. It is the representative of nominal boroughs, of ruined...families, of wealthy individuals, of foreign potentates." In a population of eight millions of English people only one hundred and sixty thousand had the right...

...exclaim: " This House is not the representation of the people of Great Britain; it is the representation of nominal boroughs, of ruined and exterminated towns,...families, of wealthy individuals, of foreign potentates." The government of England was not representative, but was oligarchical. Closely identified with the...

...differences ; they were at one in their determination to uphold the interests of a single privileged class. " This House is not the representative of the people of Great Britain," said Pitt in the Commons in 1783 ; " it is the representative of nominal boroughs, of ruined and exterminated...

...Romilly, who was present, quotes a sentence of the speech, which did not appear in the official report : " This House is not the representative of the people...families, of wealthy individuals, of foreign potentates." He then pointed out some of the worst anomalies of the existing system. There were some boroughs wholly...

...we can hardly wonder that a reformer could allege without a chance of denial, 'This House is not a representative of the people of Great Britain. It...noble families, of wealthy individuals, of foreign potentates.'"1 So general was corruption and vice among politicians, that the absence of them in the...

...as four thousand pounds. A few decades later the younger William Pitt declared with indignation : " This House is not the representative of the people...families, of wealthy individuals, of foreign potentates." The meanest motives naturally actuated a House of Commons returned by such constituencies, cut off...

...patrons. On a particular occasion the younger Pitt, in tones of righteous indignation, exclaimed, — "This House is not the representative of the people...families, of wealthy individuals, of foreign potentates." In the early part of the reign of George III., in 176(5, Lord Chatham, the elder Pitt, was a no less...

...sentative of the people of England. It was merely, as the younger Pitt declared twenty years later, " the representative of nominal boroughs, of ruined...families, of wealthy individuals, of foreign potentates." George the Third's struggle for supremacy was fought against the great Whig families : it was not a...

...exclaim: "This House is not the representation of the people of Great Britain; it is the representation of nominal boroughs, of ruined and exterminated towns,...families, of wealthy individuals, of foreign potentates." The government of England was not representative, but was oligarchical. Closely identified with the...