Lords Protest Against Commons Judgment In Constitutional Debate
A heated Lords protest warns that any resolution impeaching a Commons judgment would violate constitutional rights and breach inter-chamber trust. Signatories condemn altering election law or downgrading freeholders to leaseholders, arguing such acts threaten the kingdom’s liberties and the people’s rights.
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England in peril from treason and royal tyranny
The passage laments treason against the constitution and warns that allegiance to law, not to persons, preserves liberty. It portrays the prince as tyrant if unresponsive to people’s injuries and contemplates a possible national crisis that could either corrupt manners or restore English freedoms with public virtue.
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