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 refue the South Sea directors, but they could not entail the refual. They can diqualify by vote, but not by law; they cannot know that the entence of diqualification pronounced to-day may not become void to-morrow, by the diolution of their own Houe. Yet while the ame Parliament its, the diqualification continues unles the vote be recinded, and while it o continues, makes the votes, which freeholders may give to the interdicted candidate, ueles and dead, ince there cannot exit, with repect to the ame ubject at the ame time, an abolute power to chue and an abolute power to reject.

1614, the attorney-general was voted incapable of a eat in the Houe of Commons, and the nation is triumphantly told, that though the vote never was revoked, the attorney-general is now a member. He certainly may now be a member without revocation of the vote. A law is of perpetual