A Philosophical View of Reform (Now Printed for the First Time)
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to an assembly one portion of which was imper- fectly nominated by less than a twentieth part of the people, and another perfectly nominated by the nobles .'' For the nobility, having by the assistance of the people imposed close limitations upon the royal power, finding that power to be its natural ally and the people (for the people from the increase of their numbers acquired greater and more important rights whilst the organ through which those rights might be asserted grew feebler in propor...- tion to the increase of the cause of those rights and of their importance) its natural enemy, made the Crown the mask and pretence of their own authority. At this period began that despotism of the oligarchy of party, which under colour of administering the executive power lodged in the king, represented in truth 38 i/i Philosophical View of 'S^form the interest of the rich. "When it is said by political reasoners, speaking of the interval between 1688 and the present time, that the royal power progressively increased, they use an expression which suggests a very imperfect and partial idea.
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