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An Address Delivered Before the Literary Societies of Centre College, Ky: June 25, 1850 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover
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Declaration of Rights, although expressed in guarded and kingly phrase, contained the germ of all the free institutions of England. The written charters, recently granted by the liberality or extorted from the fears of the European princes, may seem to recognize few privileges and fewer rights as be longing to the people; ret these instruments establish princi ples on which future revolutions will move in procession, until monarchy is either destroyed as in France, or consents to the freedom of the subject as in England.
The establishment of a parliament also, under the name of the congress, council, or cortez, is not only an innovation, but is, in fact, a revolution. The monarchy is absolute no longer. The assembly may, at first, enjoy but a shadow of power; it may be composed exclusively of the nobility, or of a portion only of that order, and that portion selected by the crown; yet it is, in some sort, even then, a popular assembly. The history of the English parliament, at first feudal, com posed of barons, knights, and bishops, now reformed, and composed in part of a house of commons, then sitting with limited and now with almost unlimited powers, clearly shows what are the inherent tendencies of such an assembly. These are irresistible towards successive changes, both in its constitution and its prerogatives, until it becomes, in the first place, a representative assembly, chosen by the people, and, secondly, a body holding the purse and the sword - a power around the throne greater than the throne itself. Such will, unquestionably, be the history of the European councils. With these three forces in motion, we may conclude that lib erty in Europe has received a mighty impulse since the cen tury began, and will experience a mighty development before the century shall close.
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- LanguageEnglish
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