 | William Cobbett - 1832 - 844 pages
...subject," — it was wisely ' and honestly thus enacted — " That no ' " person who has an office or place of " " profit under the King, or receives...from the Crown, shall be " " capable of serving as a member of " " the House of Commons." — But Mr. " Whitbread, it seems, never heard of " this provision... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1809 - 540 pages
...of this " kingdom, it is declared, • That no person " ' who has an office, or place of profif, " ' under the King, or receives a pension " ' from the Crown, shall be capable of " ' serving as 'a Meml'tr of the House of "'Commons;' but th;it, notwithstanding " the wise precaution of this Act,... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1817 - 800 pages
...independence and integrity of that body after its election, by enactmg, that " no person who has an office, or place of profit, under the king, or receives a...pension from the crown, shall be capable of serving as a member of the House of Commons." 12th W. 3. ch. 2. Having thus secured the purity and independence... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1806 - 540 pages
...Subject," — it was \пье!у and honestly thus enacted — " That no per" son, who has an office orplace of profit " under the King, or receives a pension " from the Crown, shall be capable of serv" ing as a Member of tlœ House of Com" nuins." — But Mr. Wh ¡thread, it seems, never heard... | |
 | 1807 - 570 pages
...the preliminary resolutions of the act of settlement determines that 'no person, who has an office or place of profit under the king, or receives a pension from the crown, shall be capable of serving as a member of the House of Commons.' This resolution was however afterwards repealed in the reign of... | |
 | 1807 - 522 pages
...the Subject,'' — it was wisely and honcftly thus enacted — " That no person, who has an "' office or place of profit under the King, or receives " a...from the Crown, shall be capable of ** serving as a Member of the House of Commons." — But Mr. Whitbread, it seems, never heard of this provision —... | |
 | Benjamin Flower - 1809 - 646 pages
...raised to the throne of thit kingdom, and which expressly states, " That no person who has an office, or place of profit under the King, or receives a pension from the crown, shall be capable of serving as a member of the house of commons :" — A radical reform in the representation of the commons house... | |
 | Eaton Stannard Barrett - 1809 - 164 pages
...cannot judge amiss. By the act of settlement it was enacted, " that no person, who hath an office, or place of profit under the king, or receives a pension from the crown, shall be capable of serving as a member of the house of commons."— This wholesome clause was afterwards repealed.—Now, as the... | |
 | Eaton Stannard Barrett - 1809 - 458 pages
...cannot judge amiss. By the act of settlement it was enacted, " that jio person, who hath an office, or place of profit under the king, or receives a pension from the crown, shall be capable of serving as a member of the house of commons." — • This wholesome/ clause was afterwards repealed. — Now,... | |
 | Sir Francis Burdett, Francis Burdett - 1809 - 34 pages
...it was asserted, anj recognized as the Constitutional principle, that no person who " has au office or place of profit under the King, or receives a pension from the. crown, shall be capable of serving as a Member of the House of Commons." 6. That it appears, by a Report laid on the Table of the House of... | |
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That no person who has an office or place of profit under the King, or receives a pension from the crown, shall be capable of serving as a member of the house of commons. 
