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After this there was a great division in the Council, and some said the Queen was disposed to arrest the Parliament; but none but herself was of that opinion, which, indeed, was not likely to be acted upon, considering how the people then stood affected. Therefore a more moderate course was taken.
This included wastes, but the greater part was already cultivated under the 'constraint and imperfection of the open field system, a relic of the 'barbarity of our ancestors. Enclosures involved procuring acts of parliament a consequent expenditure, as Young estimates, of some £2000 in each case; and as they were generally obtained by the great landowners, there was a frequent neglect of the rights of the poor and of the smaller holders.
Elections had become a cheerful formality, a septennial folly, an ancient unmeaning custom; a social Parliament as ineffectual as the convocation of the Established Church in Victorian times assembled now and then; and a legitimate King of England, disinherited, drunken and witless, played foolishly in a second-rate music-hall.
Even the validity of the humble petition and advice was questioned, as being voted by a parliament which lay under force, and which was deprived by military violence of a considerable number of its members.
This list, being the primum mobile, or first mover of the commonwealth, is to be registered in a book diligently kept and preserved by the overseers, who are responsible in their places, for these and other duties to be hereafter mentioned, to the censors of the tribe; and the congregation is to observe the present order, as they will answer the contrary to the phylarch, or prerogative troop of the tribe, which, in case of failure in the whole or any part of it, have power to fine them or any of them at discretion, but under an appeal to the Parliament."
First, to maintain his claim to the legitimate rule of all of China, Chiang retained and controlled through his party, the KMT his former government organization, complete with cabinet ministers, administrators, and elected parliament, under the name "Central Government of China."
The King asked him whether he was willing to undertake the Government, even against the majority of the Parliament and without a Budget. Bismarck said he would do so. It was one last chance, and the King tore up the act of abdication.
At their first elections women in some of them were elected to the Parliaments and city councils of the new régime. Poland, restored, gave universal suffrage, and elected eight to the Parliament. Its women are strongly organized and very capable. It is not possible to foretell the future of these experiments in democracy.
The French Parliament was sitting in the town of Versailles; and they sent some of their body repeatedly that day to the palace, to tell the king of the danger, and urge him to do what was proper: but there was no moving the king to do anything, that day, any more than on other occasions; and he only sent word to the parliament to mind their own business.
Causes of Manufacturing Distress, over which Parliament can have no Control. There can be no doubt that there has been, of late years, a great increase of manufactures and manufactured produce in this country.
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