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 deciions have often been apparently partial, and ometimes tyrannically oppreive. A majority has been given to a favourite candidate, by expunging votes which had always been allowed, and which therefore had the authority by which all votes are given, that of cutom uninterrupted. When the Commons determine who hall be contituents, they may, with ome propriety, be aid to make law, becaue thoe determinations have hitherto, for the ake of quiet, been adopted by ucceeding Parliaments. A vote therefore of the Houe, when it operates as a law, is to individuals a law only temporary, but to communities perpetual.

though all this has been done, and though at every new Parliament much of this is expected to be done again, it has never produced in any former time uch an alarming criis. We have found by experience, that though a quire has given ale