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, than to do with greater cunning what he did before with les.

the people have been told with great confidence, that the Houe cannot control the right of contituting repreentatives; that he who can peruade lawful electors to chue him, whatever be his character, is lawfully choen, and has a claim to a eat in Parliament, from which no human authority can depoe him.

, however, the patrons of oppoition are in ome perplexity. They are forced to confes, that by a train of precedents ufficient to etablih a cutom of Parliament, the Houe of Commons has juridiction over its own members; that the whole has power over individuals; and that this power has been exercied ometimes in imprionment, and often in expulion.