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Biography_. [62] Winstanley's _New Law of Righteousness_, 1649. [63] Palgrave.
Introduction to Erskine May, _Parliamentary Practice_. [64] Sir John Eliot, 1629. [65] Edward II., in 1327, and Richard II., in 1399, had not been deposed without the consent of Parliament. [66] "The monarchical regime which was revived under Charles II.
broke down under James II.
It was left for the 'glorious Revolution' of 1688, and for the Hanoverian dynasty, to develop the ingenious system of adjustments and compromises which is now known, sometimes as cabinet government, sometimes as parliamentary government."-- ILBERT, _Parliament_. [67] G.P.Gooch, _Annals of Politics and Culture_. [68] Palmerston's influence in the House of Commons was about as bad in the nineteenth century .-- _See_ BAGEHOT, _The English Constitution_. [69] "Here and there we find an eminent man, whose public services were so notorious that it was impossible to avoid rewarding them; but putting aside those who were in a manner forced upon the Sovereign, it would be idle to deny that the remainder and, of course, the overwhelming majority, were marked by a narrowness and illiberality of sentiment, which, more than anything else, brought the whole order into contempt.
No great thinkers, no great writers, no great orators, no great statesman, none of the true nobility of the land, were to be found among those spurious nobles created by George III.
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