This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1830 Excerpt: ...and proper guardians of the people's freedom; but the institution of the committee, called Lords of the Articles, who had the previous privilege of arranging and garbling the business which was to come before parliament, prevented the efficacy of the national representatives in their proper sphere. Besides, the warm ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1830 Excerpt: ...and proper guardians of the people's freedom; but the institution of the committee, called Lords of the Articles, who had the previous privilege of arranging and garbling the business which was to come before parliament, prevented the efficacy of the national representatives in their proper sphere. Besides, the warm and precipitate discord of Scottish factions was not of a nature which could abide the cold decision of a parliamentary debate, or be decided by the orderly and peaceful vote of a deliberative assembly. When a party was triumphant they held a parliament of their own, at which those opposed to them took special care not to give attendance; or if a statute was accounted injurious to the subject, they showed their sense of its injustice not by opposing the bill in its progress through parliament, but by disregarding and disobeying it after it had passed into a law. It followed, therefore, that in most cases, as during the administration of Arran, the parliament was formed of persons chosen as being friendly to the prime minister, and under control of a close committee of lords of the articles selected by himself, who were more likely to be the organs of the royal or ministerial pleasure than the means of controlling it. The voice of the national representation being thus mute, it was highly essential that there should exist somewhere a privilege of reprehension and remonstrance against the inroads of power upon popular rights; and the church of Scotland, from circumstances and habit, had obtained possession of a privilege, the existence of which was of vital importance to the welfare of the community. That this zealous and hardy class of men, little accustomed to carry moderation into their opinions, or temper into their debates, should have exerci...
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