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NOTORIETY EXCLUSION
If I were compelled to choose, & by that choice enabled to decide, the Courts of Westminster
Hall and all the inferior Courts of Judicature should be shut up, Exactly as in the light in which the Houses of Parliament deal at this day with treat the people, did the Sovereign in the last Century but one treat them, [at least the Commons one of them Matters of State were too high for them, was the language of a wise but Queen If the new members of those houses are far wiser for the most part than those who would become their Auditor, the case disparity perhaps was not less different between that Sovereign and the then members of those Houses — But as Wisdom tho' a great is not the sole requisite in a Legislature but the Courts
of Parliament should be open — why? because to the transactions of those inferior Courts
there would be still a check, namely the other superior ones, — But from these the
check centenel of public opinion being taken away, the only one of which by their nature they are
susceptible, they remain without controul.
I know it will be presently observed, that when the one House Court of Legislature acts
in it's capacity of a Court of Judicature, it is then open
No Nursary to board up if any Statesmen
The eldest Sons of Peers indeed —
but the eldest Sons of Members of
the House of Commons?
Who What are the eldest Sons of Members
of the House of Commons?
The eldest Sons of a King of Poland
What have they to do with the debates House
any more than the moment subject? unless
the suffrages of the People are to all as well as too many are already
be converted into hereditory property.
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