This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1835 edition. Excerpt: ... Money: a formal attempt by the King, for which he had been long prepared, to form a government of the more moderate portion of the parliamentary party. I cannot believe that the death of the Earl of Bedford could alone have occasioned the failure of this intended arrangement: it is more probable that the dissensions which soon broke out in the great body of the Commons had already covertly appeared. The Parliament, although both Houses, and the vast majority of the Lower, had been previously opposed to the King, for we must not forget that even Hyde and Falkland were originally members of opposition, had now become divided into two parties, the Constitutional Reformers, and the Root and Branch Reformers: Pym and Hampden headed the latter. The Constitutional Reformers were alarmed by the attack on the Church: the Lords threw out the Bill which sought to deprive the Bishops of their Parliamentary suffrage. This was the first check that the Commons had received from the Upper House. Pym and Hampden, deserted by the Constitutional Reformers, had thrown themselves into the hands of the Puritans DEGREESRoot and Branch men. Instead of political unions, they appealed to the city apprentices, and the trained bands; mobs were hired, petitions forged, all the arts of insurgency practised. The Peers were daunted, the King frightened; Strafford was executed, the Bishops expelled the House of Lords, the House of Commons itself rendered independent of the King and its constituents by the act which made its dissolution consequent on its own pleasure. At length, by the Remonstrance and the Propositions, the very abrogation of the monarchy being attempted, the king raised his standard, and so completely had the unhappy monarch by his conduct placed the

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1835 edition. Excerpt: ... their ancient government, as Stephen Langton, Selden, and Lord Somers, that the liberties of their countrymen should be traced to a similar source. All were alike practical men; all avoided the barren assertion of abstract rights; and the same destiny of continued welfare in all probability awaits Prussia, that has long so blessed our native land. It appears to me, my Lord, that it is destined to the free constitution of the United States of North America to exercise the same fatal influence over the political society of the New World, as the constitution of England has wielded over that of the old. The constitution of the United States was applied to the government of Mexico, Colombia, Peru, and Chili, by virtue of the same peremptory and abstract principles, that had selected the constitution of England for the government of France, Sicily, Spain, and Portugal; and the same results were acquired. The European and the American States, that have been the victims of this Quixotic spirit of political Propagandism, have vied with each other in successive revolutions, until at length disorder, and even disorganization, have universally prevailed, except where anarchy has been arrested by despotism. Why is this? Why has the republican constitution flourished in New England, and failed in New Spain? Why has the congress of Washington commanded the respect of civilized Europe, and the congresses of Mexico, or Lima, or Santiago, gained only its derision or disgust? The answer is obvious: the constitution of the United States had no more root in the soil of Mexico, and Peru, and Chili, than the constitution of England in that of France, and Spain, and Portugal: it was not founded on the habits or the opinions of those whom it affected to guide, ..