The Age of the Democratic Revolution. A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800

218 Chapter X ment, on the advice of the Lord Lieutenant, countenanced them and even supplied weapons, though with some misgivin ...

Two Parliaments Escape Reform 219 publicity, the British yielded. The first real concessions came in 1780. The British Parliamen ...

220 Chapter X Anglican monopoly, had anything to do with the government. It was a time of prosperity for the manufacturing, trad ...

Two Parliaments Escape Reform 221 posed, while leaving all else unchanged, to grant the vote to those few property- owning and s ...

222 Chapter X lated boroughs should continue to have members in Parliament. But it was an argu- ment much favored by opponents o ...

Two Parliaments Escape Reform 223 influence of the crown, and urged the need of economical reform. They declared that a degenera ...

224 Chapter X wealthy Whig family (he and his brothers had to be bailed out of £140,000 in gambling debts in 1774), Fox was a ma ...

Two Parliaments Escape Reform 225 Whigs everywhere disputed with radicals, as the Whigs everywhere fled from the association ide ...

226 Chapter X sembly that did not start from some legally accepted base, such as the colonial legislatures in America or the Fre ...

Two Parliaments Escape Reform 227 practice of depositing the funds in the Bank of England, and put himself on a salary. I cannot ...

228 Chapter X The Reform Bills and Their Failure The extra- parliamentary pressure, quasi- military in Ireland, civilian in Engl ...

Two Parliaments Escape Reform 229 Henry Flood, an officer of the Volunteers, proceeded the short distance through the Dublin str ...

230 Chapter X now commanding the army in Ireland, and the Lord Lieutenant wrote to London that there was nothing to worry about. ...

Two Parliaments Escape Reform 231 such as Manchester. Since copyhold, over the centuries, had in effect become a form of ownersh ...

232 Chapter X his chief ideas. Burke’s philosophy was ultimately to be of such importance that, like that of Rousseau’s Social C ...

Two Parliaments Escape Reform 233 liament by East Indian nabobs, can all be explained as a warm defense of parlia- mentary digni ...

234 Chapter X firmed and supported that there has been generally something found amiss in the constitution or the conduct of gov ...

Two Parliaments Escape Reform 235 Burke’s conservative sentiments, like his liberal ones, arose in a concrete and human way from ...

236 Chapter X an altercation on the floor of the House with Pitt. Pitt declared that the American war had been due to defective ...

Two Parliaments Escape Reform 237 time. The two views were not necessarily contradictory, nor should either be dis- missed as fa ...