Parliamentary Government Considered With Reference to Reform
The book Parliamentary Government Considered With Reference to Reform was written by author Grey, Henry George Grey, Earl, 1802-1894 Here you can read free online of Parliamentary Government Considered With Reference to Reform book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Parliamentary Government Considered With Reference to Reform a good or bad book?
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217 some respects to bring it more imder the influence of the opinions and feelings of the people^it would be most desirable to provide that a few of the Members of the House of Commons should hold their Seats by a tenure, which would make them independent of the sudden variations to which ! these opinions and feelings are liable. What I ; mean is, that they should hold their Seats for life.^ I shall be by no means surprised if this proposal should be scouted as a novelty too monstrous to be li...stened to for a moment, but I would submit, that though it may be novel in form, it is not so in substance. Walpole, Burke, Pitt, Fox, and other leaders of the unreformed Parliament practically held their Seats by a tenure not dependent on po- pular caprice, because they knew that if the larger Constituencies were to reject them^ they had a se- cure refuge in th^ nomination boroughs under the control of some of their party adherents. Nor is it, I think, possible to doubt that this security with respect to their personal position, and the absence of any necessity for deferring to the prejudices of a popular Constituency, enabled these great men to serve their country with more effect than they could otherwise have done.* * £yen in the refonned House of Ck>fninons there hare heen a few leading men who have held a position of equal security, and I be* Digitized by VjOOQIC 218 SUGGESnOKS FOB A REFORM BILL.
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