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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III. BILL FOR THE SUSPENSION OF THE JAMAICA CONSTITUTION, 1839. The events which followed the defeat of the Bill for the temporary government of Jamaica, though they have somewhat damped the interest, have not diminished the importance, of that question. The new measure which the anomalous position of the Ministry, on their return to office, compelled them to introduce, must be regarded as a temporary expedient at best. Should it be carried, it will prevent some very serious evils, but it will not stop the source out of which all evils flow. The quarrel between the Assembly of Jamaica, and the Government and Parliament of (ireat Britain, springs from an incompatibility of feeling, an opposition of purposes, and an unhappy divorce betwen constitutional privilege and natural right, which no forms of speech can rumove, and which occasional exertions of power rather aggravate than allay. It must therefore be expected that the original question (which by the original Bill would have been set finally and happily at rest) will rise again; in what precise shape it would be rash to predict; but certainly in some shape or other more difficult to deal with than the present. In whatever form it may present itself, however, it is of the highest importance that the Public should be prepared, by a knowledge of what the thing itself is, to resist impressions which are due only to the names by which it may be called. In what motives the opposition to the dropped Bill originated, we do not pretend to say; nor would we hastily presume that the leaders of it were incapable of beingimposed on by their own arguments; but of this we are sure, that if the real nature of the question had been generally understood, those arguments could never have prevailed with half the House of Commons. By a revi...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217989299 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217989292 |
| Weight | 1.01 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.70 In |
| List Price | $24.49 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 310 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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