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" I venture to say that every man who is not presumably incapacitated by some consideration of personal unfitness or of political danger is morally entitled to come within the pale of the Constitution. "
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 272
1865
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The History of Twenty-five Years: 1865-1870

Sir Spencer Walpole - 1904 - 556 pages
...tosay that every man who is not personally incapacitated by some consideration of personal unfitness or of political danger is morally entitled to come within the pale of the Constitution.' Morley's Life of Gladstone, vol. ii. p. 126. THE IIISTORY OF TWENTY-FIVE YEARS. of the Administration...
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A History of Modern England, Volume 2

Herbert Woodfield Paul - 1904 - 462 pages
...speeee°h.rat every man who is not presumably incapacitated by some consideration of personal unfitness or political danger is morally entitled to come within the pale of the Constitution." Obvious as this principle may seem now, nothing like it had then been heard in the House of Commons...
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1809-1872

John Morley - 1905 - 1048 pages
...say tJiat every man who is not presumably incapacitated by some consideration of personal unfitness or of political danger, is morally entitled to come within the pale of itie constitution. Of course, in giving utterance to such a proposition, I do not recede from the protest...
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A Century of Empire, 1801-1900, Volume 2

Sir Herbert Maxwell - 1910 - 452 pages
...say that every man who is not presumably incapacitated by some consideration of personal unfitness or of political danger is morally entitled to come within the pale of the constitution." The sensation was immediate and intense. Here was the most eloquent man in the Commons, marked out...
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Parliament and the People: A Course of Lectures Delivered in the Royal ...

John Howard Bertram Masterman - 1909 - 140 pages
...say that every man who is not presumably incapacitated by some consideration of personal unfitness or of political danger is morally entitled to come within the pale of the Constitution." That seems a commonplace to-day ; it seemed then to be a most dangerous doctrine to Palmerston and...
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The Life of Benjamin Disraeli: Earl of Beaconsfield, Volume 4

William Flavelle Monypenny, George Earle Buckle - 1916 - 660 pages
...say that every man who is not presumably incapacitated by some consideration of personal unfitness or of political danger is morally entitled to come within the pale of the Constitution.' No public man, outside of the Radical ranks, had hitherto openly advocated a lowering of the franchise...
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A History of the British Constitution

John Howard Bertram Masterman - 1912 - 324 pages
...doctrine, that "every man who is not presumably incapacitated by some consideration of personal unfitness or of political danger is morally entitled to come within the pale of the Constitution." Reform Act Seventeen years later the third Reform Act of the of 1884. century extended the franchise...
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The Constitutional History of England Since the Accession of ..., Volume 3

Thomas Erskine May - 1912 - 432 pages
...say that every man who is not personally incapacitated by some consideration of personal unfitness or of political danger is morally entitled to come within the pale of the constitution". 1 Yet his proposal in 1866 to lower the borough franchise from £\Q to £7 householders hardly gave...
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The Constitutional History of England Since the Accession of ..., Volume 3

Thomas Erskine May - 1912 - 432 pages
...say that every man who is not personally incapacitated by some consideration of personal unfitness or of political danger is morally entitled to come within the pale of the constitution".1 Yet his proposal in 1866 to lower the borough franchise from £,10 to £"j householders...
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The Life of John Bright

George Macaulay Trevelyan - 1913 - 544 pages
...say that every man who is not presumably incapacitated by some consideration of personal unfitness or of political danger, is morally entitled to come within the pale of the constitution.' Having so said, he began after his manner to qualify and refine upon his words, but all in vain. He...
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