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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. Excerpt from book: Section 3him with the breach of his promise, and textit{he would charge them with apostacy from their principles *. The first question which claimed the attention of the new monarch was the state of the revenue. The parliamentary grant of one-half of the excise, and of the whole of the customs, expired at the death of his brother t: was he then to content himself with a mutilated income, confessedly inadequate to the wants of government, or to continue the former duties till the meeting of parliament, by his own anthority and contrary to law ? He chose the latter part of the alternative; but at the same time, to gratify the wishes of the people, he resolved to rall a parliament, and, that he might claim the whole merit, to call it before the request should be urged by any public body, or the advice be suggested by the privy council. A parliament was accordingly sum- F moned to meet on the 19th of May, and a proclamation issued, which, alleging state necessity as the canse, ordered the usual duties to be levied on merchandise, till parliament should have settled the revenue of the crown. That such a measure was illegal did not admit of doubt; nor were the enemies of James slow to point to it as a proof of the meaning which he attached to his promise of never invading any man's property J. But the nation cheerfully acquiesced. The necessity of levying the duties was considered as a satisfactory apology; and the very language of the proclamation implied an acknowledgment of the constitutional maxim that money could not be lawfully raised without the authority of parliament. The barristers of the Middle * Clar. Corresp. ii. App. 471. Gazette, 2018. Section 4Temple presented to the king an address of thanks; the great companies of merchants trading to the Baltie, to the East Indies, to Africa, and to ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781443284516
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 174
  • Spine Width: 9 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1443284513
  • Publisher Date: 09 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 322 gr


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