They, therefore, might with perfect propriety discharge him.
Whatever a jurist might have thought of these arguments, they had no effect on the Commons.

Indeed, violent as the spirit of party was in those times, it was less violent than the spirit of caste.

Whenever a dispute arose between the two Houses, many members of both forgot that they were Whigs or Tories, and remembered only that they were Patricians or Plebeians.

On this occasion nobody was louder in asserting the privileges of the representatives of the people in opposition to the encroachments of the nobility than Harley.

Duncombe was again arrested by the Serjeant at Arms, and remained in confinement till the end of the session.