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All the above reasoning essentially requires that the representatives of the people should be united in interests with the people. We shall soon see that this union really prevails in the English constitution, and may be called the master-piece of it.

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A Survey of the various Powers included in the English Constitution, and of the Laws both in Civil and Criminal Cases.

Chap.

I. Causes of the Liberty of the English Nation.-
Reasons of the Difference between the Govern-
ment of England and that of France.-In
England, the great Power of the Crown, under
the first Norman Kings, created an Union be-
tween the Nobility and the People

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II. A second Advantage England had over France: it formed one undivided State

III. The subject continued

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IV. Of the Legislative Power

V. Of the Executive Power

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VI. The Boundaries which the Constitution has set

to the Royal Prerogative

VII. The same subject continued

VIII. New Restrictions .

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IX. Of private Liberty, or the Liberty of Individuals 88 X. On the Law that is observed in England in regard to Civil Matters.

XI. The subject continued.-The Courts of Equity. 115 XII. Of Criminal Justice.

XIII. The subject continued.

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XIV. The subject concluded.-Laws relative to Impri

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BOOK II.

A View of the Advantages of the English Government, and of the Rights and Liberties of the People; and a Confirmation, by reference to Facts, of the Principles stated in the Work.

Chap.

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I. Some Advantages peculiar to the English Con-
stitution.-1. The Unity of the Executive
Power.

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II. The subject concluded.-The Executive Power
is more easily confined when it is one
III. A second Peculiarity.-The Division of the Le-
gislative Power.

177

IV. A third Advantage peculiar to the English Go-
vernment. The Business of proposing Laws
lodged in the Hands of the People

V. In which an Inquiry is made, whether it would
be an advantage to Public Liberty, that the
Laws should be enacted by the Votes of the
People at large

VI. Advantages that accrue to the People from ap-
pointing Representatives

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END OF VOL. I.

T. Davison, Printer, Whitefriars.

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