| Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1876 - 578 pages
...period it was expunged from the journal, — I now quote the emphatic words, — " as being subversive of the rights of the whole body of electors of this kingdom." I submit, Sir, the record in your journal is subversive of the great principle of jurisprudence on... | |
| Francis James Newman Rogers, John Corrie Carter - Election law - 1880 - 914 pages
...above-mentioned vote of February 17th to be expunged, as unfit to remain on their Journals ; " being subversive of the rights of the whole body of electors of this kingdom," 38 Journ. 977. A member elecle and returned for one place is ineligible foi any other. A different... | |
| George Otto Trevelyan - Great Britain - 1880 - 486 pages
...its records all traces whatsoever of its own arbitrary proceedings in the past, "as being subversive of the rights of the whole body of electors of this kingdom." Historians have been blamed for giving too much of their space to Wilkes, and to the cause which he... | |
| Charles Bradlaugh - Great Britain - 1882 - 114 pages
...Member to serve in the said Parliament, be expunged from the Journals of this House as being subversive of the rights of the whole body of electors of this Kingdom. By Cavendish's Parliamentary Debates, Vol. I., page 73, 24th November, 1768, it appears that inter... | |
| John Joseph Lalor - Economics - 1884 - 1254 pages
...1782, reversed its action in the Wilkes case, ordering it expunged from the journals as " subversive of the rights of the whole body of electors of this kingdom." Many expulsions from parliament have occurred for corruption, perjury, conspiracy, fraud, libel, forgery,... | |
| National Liberal Federation - Great Britain - 1887 - 782 pages
...19, and the 31 and 32 Vic., c. 72,' be expunged from the Journals of this House, as being subversive of the rights of the whole body of electors of this Kingdom." We are satisfied that in bringing forward this motion Mr. Bradlaugh ^s. will have the sympathy and... | |
| Hannis Taylor - Constitutional history - 1898 - 714 pages
...disqualifying resolution of February 17, 1769, was ordered to be expunged from the journals, as "subversive of the rights of the whole body of electors of this kingdom." 2 So firmly did that action settle the fact that an expulsion does not create a disability, that upon... | |
| Edmund Burke - History - 1892 - 706 pages
...right to offer himself to take the Parliamentary oath, adding that such a resolution was " subversive of the rights of the whole body of electors of this kingdom." The Solicitor-General, Sir Edward Clarke (Plymouth), briefly urged for consideration that the House had... | |
| Henry Lorenzo Jephson - Great Britain - 1892 - 500 pages
...serve in the said Parliament, should be expunged from the Journals of that House "as being subversive of the rights of the whole body of electors of this kingdom." * What a commentary on all the arguments of the Ministers and of "the King's friends," which were used... | |
| Francis James Newman Rogers - Election law - 1895 - 828 pages
...above-mentioned vote of 17th February to be expunged, as unfit to remain on their Journals, " being subversive of the rights of the whole body of electors of this kingdom " : 38 Journ. 977. Northampton, 22nd February, 1882. — Mr. Bradlaugh was expelled for disobeying... | |
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