ISBN: 9781235076411

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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1833. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... 1675. miseries: the king had granted a very full indemnity, and had observed it religiously: but there was no reason, while so much of the old leaven still remained, to leave the nation exposed to men of such principles: it was not fit to make a parliament perpetual : yet that was a less evil, than to run the hazard of a bad election; especially when jealousies and fears had been blowed about the nation: a good constitution was to be preserved by all prudent methods: no man was to be pressed to take this test: but, as they, who were not willing to come into such an engagement, ought to have the modesty to be contented with the favour and connivance of the government, so, if that did not teach 384 them good manners, it might be fit to use severer tools. To all this, great opposition was made. It was plain, the duke did not like it: but the king was so set on it, that he did not declare himself against it. But all the papists were against it: they thought the bringing any test in practice would certainly bring on one that would turn them out of the house. The lord Shaftsbury, Buckingham, Hollis, Hallifax, and all those who were thought the country party, opposed this extremely. They thought there ought to be no tests, beyond the oath of allegiance, upon the elections to parliament: that it being the great privilege of Englishmen, that they were not to be taxed but by their representatives; it was therefore thought a disinheriting men of the main part of their birthright, to do any thing that should shut them out from their votes in electing: all tests in public assemblies were thought dangerous, and contrary to public liberty: for if a parliament thought any law inconvenient for the good of the whole, they must be supposed still free to alter it: 1675. an... Gilbert Burnet, Books, Fiction and Literature, Fiction, Bishop Burnet's History Of His Own Time (volume 1-2) Books>Fiction and Literature>Fiction <

ISBN: 1235076415

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