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Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… to the ancient Government. If we now go to lay a new foundation, what a labyrinth shall we run into ? To turn all … House was not chosen to that end. We cannot assume it. The foundation to stand upon is a law, which cannot be repealed … one of those that would have these two great stones of the foundation of this Government laid together with all the care …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… speech against passing it as it was penned. It shakes the foundation of all your laws that have passed in this …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… magistracy and ministry; such principles as will level the foundation of all government into a bog of confusion. But to … say it does exarescere. I cannot say but the ground and foundation remain. The sense of the common law is known as to …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… not have you out your other great vote. Be upon a good foundation at home. Ordered, to take into consideration the …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… as to argument of prudence; but as to law, there is no foundation. There is no distribution to guide the election. … all by one town, as in the way they are. They have no foundation at all; neither by Petition and Advice, nor any … want the formality of a top stone, nay, if it were, of a foundation-stone, shall we pull down all the building. If it …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… the Parliament, did oversway. So you build upon an ill foundation if you aim at the old way. You cannot build up … is in the people, in you, in consent. You have laid a good foundation, a single person. It now concerns you to build … upon the footing of the Petition and Advice, or on a new foundation, or on the old Constitution. I think we are yet to …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… 3 I understand not this; you are a Parliament on a clear foundation of law. They that did confirm the Act of Union 4 … have changed the constitution of Parliament. There was no foundation in law in the Long Parliament to receive them from … you cannot receive them, without overturning your own foundation. You being thus called, upon the old bottom, when …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… shall be, or not. If there be, it must be upon the old foundation or upon a new constitution. The last Parliament cashiered the old foundation. The victorious Long Parliament, the dictators and …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… of his Highness, would be founded upon an old and sure foundation. Sir William Strickland. It is very late to enter … to you than the Bill before you. Government is the foundation of security. I am sorry I was not at your debate … than by establishing the government upon the old and tried foundation, as was moved to you by a grave and …