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27 June 1802 10 17
6 Convict
1 The Legislator
3 Causes
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The act of doing
illegal things to
save trouble was
learnt by Pitt of his
father &
in the case of the
power over the Corn Laws in 1766 The principal principle of action was not a new
one to the headstrong Minister who was acting upon
it. A politician and an Orator Trained up to politics and oratory from his cradle,
he had been bred up in a School which taught mere
to kick-down constitutions to save trouble: — to kick them
down, say my Lord: not merely to kick them aside, as here.
The same versatile and fluent lawyer who,
to foment rebellion insurrection which ended in emancipation, separation had
discovered afterwards that taxation laws are not laws +
+ and that the
on which the subjects
money is given by
the noxious Houses to notion no command on anybody
to pay it — this same
ingenious person but discovered
in 1766 that there is in every year a time during which the Bill of Rights is waste
paper; and that whenever Parliament is not sitting, the advisers of the Crown have a legal right to exercise supersede
a suspending power the laws of Parliament on condition of making use of
the word necessity, where they should they ever have need come to speak of it. That
in that case (4.) there was a real necessity for suspending
[5]
a law of Parliament was admitted on all hands. That
they made the necessity was of their making was charged
[upon them by on the other side] by their opponents,
though — such was their candour the candour on that side (the candour of their
opponents — the mission to a meeting of Parliament
while the necessity was growing before under their eyes
was ascribed — not to design but nothing worse than negligence. The indemnity
which they affected to disdain and fight against,
In this adventure
as afterward in the
on to the other the
the the first Earl
and the first Earl
Chatham went hand
in hand were co-partners.
Taught by this
— emboldened by
this precedent — seeing
how much more might
be done attempted
they got notwithstanding, though without deserving it. They
were Ministers first in power, and concern for
creating the necessity might would have been liable to be misinterpreted
into concern for asking under it when created.
Seeing then what may be done by a Minister since it was done by his with impunity
Thus it was that from the example of Pitt the
first Pitt and his friend, Pitt the second the hereditary minister, in the <add>new family state</add> learnt to
not to kick the constitution aside to save trouble.
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