 ... of common right, all the inhabitants, householders, and residents within the borough, ought to have voice in the election, and not the freeholders there only'. In the case of Boston (1628) the committee asserted that the election of burgesses, in...  Sketch of the Political Career of the Earl of Durham - Page 389de John George Lambton Earl of Durham, John Reid - 1835 - 400 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | John George Lambton Earl of Durham - 1835 - 142 pages
...do not mean the first principles of society—nor to the abstract principles of representation—but to the first known and recorded principles of our...and greatest men this country has produced. I need not detain you with regard to the proposition for shortening the duration of Parliament; we are all... | |
 | Joshua Toulmin Smith - 1859 - 206 pages
...This Committee, after very full consideration, adjudged, " that, of common right, all the inhabitants, householders and residents within the borough, ought to have voice in the election ;" and that no charter could be " of force to abridge or alter that common right." (Glanville's Reports,... | |
 | William Edward Hearn - 1867 - 592 pages
...knowledge that were ever united in such a body," reported that " of common right all the inhabitants householders and residents within the borough ought to have voice in the election."J But although the burgesses of Domesday * Hallam, Corut. Hut. iii. 41. t 76. 40. { Glanville'e... | |
 | Homersham Cox - 1868 - 224 pages
...or alter that common right.' Another resolution stated that ' of common right all the inhabitants, householders, and residents within the borough ought to have voice in the election.' This decision was confirmed by the House, t * Merewether, ' History of Boroughs,' p. 1324. f Glanville,... | |
 | Stuart Johnson Reid - 1906 - 480 pages
...Fox, Sheridan, Erskine, and Grey had all advocated Household Suffrage, and the House of Commons had twice declared that ' of common right, all the inhabitant householders and residents within a borough ought to have a voice in an election.' As to the Shortening of the Duration of Parliaments,... | |
 | Derek Hirst - 1975 - 324 pages
...Buckinghamshire boroughs in that parliament, determined that 'of common right, all the inhabitants, householders, and residents within the borough, ought to have voice in the election'.8 But not all Committees were willing to go as far as Glanville's. Sir Bevill Grenville and... | |
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