Help organising your research by adding bookmarking your articles. You can review your Bookmarks in the Saved area. *
* We take your privacy seriously. Bookmarks and notes are personal to you and are not public.
... I. Be it enacted, that for the purposes of obtaining an equal representation of the people in the Commons House of Parliament, the United Kingdom be divided into 300 electoral districts.* 11. That each such district contain, as nearly as may be, an equal number of inhabitants. 111. That the number inhabitants be taken from the last census, and as soon as possible after the next ensuing ...
... ~KOR NATION TO LOVE LIBERTY, IT IS SUFFICIENT THAT SHE KNOWS IT; AND TO BE FREE, IT IS SUFFICIENT THAT SHE WILLS IT.” M, La Fayette, ©ntoerSal Suffrage, Annual parliaments, Ballot, Property (Siualificati'cmS, payment fHcmfierS, & (iflectoral QfStn'ctS. Piiice One-Halfpenny. No. 13. so that if were taxed £lO,OOO, £lOO,OOO should pay £40,000, and not at taxing small and large sums equally. Ihis ...
... the American War of Independence, so little was known in Britain of the courage of,freemen, or of the character of the people of the United States, that they were believed to be so cowardly and timid that THE CHARTIST CIRCULAR. 1000 men would be sufficient to put down the insurrection in the New England States. The Battle of Bunker’s Hill, which, in some regiments, the youngest ensign in the ...
... Or. the first institution of the House of Commons, the members appear to have received wages for attending their duties as senators. In the fourteenth year of the reign of Edward the Second, certain tenants in ancient demesne, laimed to be exempt from paying wages to the knights of the shires, for as much as they and their ancestors, tenants of the same manor, had from time immemorial been ...
... ■ f ...
... popu. oe, from - town. he had t’ers imevidenc* resist, achment gony of ‘te their them to in st the ailed in appears med the the ist him. 11. Gen'ur. with mediate ad fixed nty jail, n. Jamden, n up to procure • of the nember, ae was er hus- The in- became security, id. hrice for mis- s, and make a e found tiled to ogether iembers I divide imerous ■e is no of his er is as omplaitnother, oppres)f ...
... ...
... ...
... lihood with foreign powers; your would have been contented and happy, instead of being obliged to have recourse to subscriptions to keep them from starvation. As it now is, France will soon have the trade of Brazils: you have in your own colonies more cotton and sugar than you want, and, consequently, will not take the productions of the Brazils in exchange for your merchandize. Now the French ...
... Parable of the Fig Tree. He spake also this parable : A certain man had a fiff tree p'anted in his vineyard, and came and sought fruit thereon, and found none. Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, behold, these three years I came seeking fruit this fig tree, and find none : cut it down—why cumbereth the ground ? And answering, said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, ti:l I ...
... pOR A NATION TO LOVE LIBERTY - , IT IS SUFFICIENT THAT SHE KNOWS IT; AND TO BE FREE, IT IS SUFFICIENT THAT SHE WILLS IT.” M. De La Fayette. ...