Crosby's Parliamentary Record of Elections in Great Britain and Ireland: With Select Biographical Notices and Speeches of Distinguished Statesmen, &c, 第 1 卷G. Crosby, 1847 |
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Anson appointed Baillie Baring bill Blackburne borough Buller Burdett Byng Campbell Capt Captain Cavendish Cavendish W Charles Clive Colonel corn law Cornwall deceased Devonshire Duke Duncombe Dundas Earl Earl of Euston Edward Egerton elected Ferguson Fitzroy Foley Francis Glynn Grenville Grey Harvey Heathcote Henry VIII Hobhouse honour house of commons Howard Hugh Ireland J. R. Reid Joseph July Lancashire Lord G Lord John Lord John Russell Lord Palmerston Lowther Marq Marquis Matthew Wood Morpeth NORTH DIVISION Paget Palmer parliament Peer Pelham petition Philip Pitt Poll R. B. Sheridan resigned returned Rice W Richard Robert Waithman Russell Samuel secretary Sir F Sir G Sir George Sir H Sir J. C. Sir John Sir Robert Sir Thomas Sir William Smith speech Stanley Stewart Stuart Thompson Thos Townshend Turner unseated vice Villiers Viscount Walpole Walter Whitmore Wood Wyndham Wynn Yorkshire
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第 149 頁 - Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests ; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates ; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole ; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole.
第 149 頁 - If government were a matter of will upon any side, yours, without question, ought to be superior. But government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination : and, what sort of reason is that, in which the determination precedes the discussion ; in which one set of men deliberate, and another decide ; and where those who form the conclusion are perhaps three hundred miles distant from those who hear the arguments...
第 30 頁 - ... there can be but one supreme power, which is the legislative, to which all the rest are and must be subordinate; yet the legislative being only a fiduciary power to act for certain ends, there remains still 'in the people a supreme power to remove or alter the legislative', when they find the legislative act contrary to the trust reposed in them...
第 148 頁 - Certainly, Gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinions high respect; their business unremitted attention.
第 29 頁 - The power and jurisdiction of parliament, says Sir Edward Coke, is so transcendent and absolute that it cannot be confined. either for causes or persons, within any bounds.
第 47 頁 - That the freedom of speech, and debates or proceedings in Parliament, ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of Parliament.
第 34 頁 - That the raising or keeping a standing army within the kingdom in time of peace, unless it be with consent of parliament, is against law.
第 148 頁 - But his unbiassed opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you, to any man, or to any set of men living. These he does not derive from your pleasure; no, nor from the law and the Constitution. They are a trust from Providence, for the abuse of which he is deeply answerable. Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment ; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
第 149 頁 - To deliver an opinion, is the right of all men ; that of constituents is a weighty and respectable opinion, which a representative ought always to rejoice to hear ; and which he ought always most seriously to consider. But authoritative instructions ; mandates issued, which the member is bound blindly and implicitly to obey, to vote, and to argue for, though contrary to the clearest conviction of his judgment and conscience, — these are things utterly unknown to the laws of this land, and which...
第 148 頁 - My worthy colleague says, his will ought to be subservient to yours. If that be all, the thing is innocent. If government were a matter of will upon any side, yours, without question, ought to be superior. But government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination...