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1828 Aug. 3
Blackstone

As to the Monarch what is universally known is – that
he can not openly and declaredly on any occasion give exercise to the supreme
power otherwise than with the concurrence of both Houses of
Parliament.

What is equally known is that in regard to the Upper
House he places at pleasure all the several members,
though when one placed he can not displace any of the others
and that on death they in their succession one to another is determined
by birth as in the case of the Monarch.

What is also equally known is that in his
hands is the power of conferring on whom he pleases, the
objects of general desire in various shapes, and of such
value that among all the Members of that House there is
not one in whose heads eyes in particular something which the King has
it thus in his power to give or not an object of desire
an object capable of acting in the capacity of a portion
of the matter of reward, in such sort as to produce on
the part of the individual in question a constant disposition
to conferr render his own conduct on every occasion conformable
to the will of the Monarch whatever it may be.

Moreover though he can not displace them – any of them,
separately and individually, what he can do is to suspend for a
considerable time, and as often as he pleases, all action on their
part in their collective capacity, provided it be by the same act
whereby the Members of the House of Commons are displaced –
all of them, at once.

Identifier: | JB/030/086/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 30.
Date_1	1828-08-03	Marginal Summary Numbering	12-15
Box	030	Main Headings	pannomion
Folio number	086	Info in main headings field	blackstone
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d4 / e4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	b&m 1828
Marginals	richard doane	Paper Producer	arthur moore; richard doane
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1828
Notes public		ID Number	9593
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