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Newspaper
Middlesex Middlesex Journal
Location
Middlesex, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Apr 15, 1769
Page
2
The piece argues that privileges cannot override national law and that a representative acts as a collective person only while serving. Once public business ends, the representative becomes an individual subject to law, and a body cannot legislate for itself against the laws binding all electors.
A critical discourse argues that defenders of liberty must ground their case in facts, not rhetoric. It condemns selective reasoning, condemns subversion of freedoms, and asserts liberty stems from nature, reason, and the social compact. It condemns abuses like general warrants, unjust detention, and biased trials as threats to English liberty.
A letter argues the Middlesex freeholders may not expel a member of the House of Commons whom they oppose, asserting that the right to choose lies with the people and that expulsions require delegated power. The piece compares the Crown’s power to create peers with the people’s right to elect representatives, warning against nonlegal restraint of electoral choices.
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