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didettiors from it that the people, in establl hiug if e
fundamental law s cif their Government—in erecting the
frame-work of their political system, had a right to place
the surtior power in the hands of one man, or of 111
number of men? and was it not evally clear that they
had a right to exclude for ever any particular class r f
loch from political power altogether, and this exclusion
ovoid be no grievance? This reasoning followed from
the principle that the people were the source of political
.power? but he doubled whether that principle enn'd be
conscientiously maintained by a Roman Catholic, and
was disposed to think that he meet in con•istr.cs lork
upon the Pope as the sourceof politics' power. A goes-
tinn like that before the House mint be concluded by
reference to the original contract incised in evsty
oetional Constitution. He had the high 'Windt,
fie Will am Blackstone for saying, that in eve:; Con.
gitation a contract was implied, but th t it eras eft.
pressed in ours. The conned. as established at tile
period of the Revolutioa, was to he b und in the deems
ratios of the people, in which Peers and Commoners
meted, that the King having abdicated t e thinne, and
violet d Isis original contract with his people, the throne
was vac .nt. The necessary cones quince if t sis diem.
ration, unless every emu is t and evil; e
"OW were to be mashed together, was the appoii
Meng of a successor to the throne. king WRIi on then
e Jled a Convention, not only for the purpose of c.a.
li.nsing his own title lathe throne. but to mtablish
stkutional securities for the eights, liberties, and robe a
of the CutlalLy. This Conv:minn was as i.eife:t a re-
presesseation ..f the peoples. England a k was passible
to assemble together, in the citcurustanots of that day.
—The first question which this Convention to k into
its consideration was, whether there wee as osiginal
contract in the British Constitution bet seen tfieKing
and the people? This question they decided in the affir-
mative. They then determined that this contra t
refitted perpetual regard to Magna Charts and I .
by Jury ; and that at no pet iod cont. a K.ng
England hate isolated either withnn, a breach at 'his
contract with the nation. It was then found that Jam
the Second had really committed this clime. The all
of Rights was then drawn up, which declared that the
liberties uf the people had been violated by the King,
and after several other asset teens as to the inn net. of
this violation, if proceeded to specify two distinct- post
position.. The 6t“ was the awns. tof King Janses,lti.
repeal cettain Acts for keeping out Pope.;. This .wais
one of the great charges against King James the Seen. d
in the B II of Right., and he thesevie said that the
present measure also molmed the Bill of Rights.
They then .proceeded to enact a new Coronation 041 h.
TI e Act of the thirtieth of Charles toe Second we.. that
by which Romeo Catholics were excluded from Parliaes
nient, and to show the spit it in which the new estab-
lishment was made, the Act was immediesely.eatemled
to belated, to exclude Roman Catholics bonsai:lows.
Isture of that country. Then the Test Met, whiclfh id
apt been applied to Ireland, and not genciall c. t: reed
in this Ceuta. I. was re-roacte&ind 'spelled • tth irk Us.
tart;; eaCleaCY• Ter this was suiosadde the new
.0 .th of Supremacy and Declarati. n against Tian w •
gammons. From all those circuess• mice., it safes/Limit
.that the vises niog psonciple of eta ilrsoloLOlS was the
necessity of guarding agalialbe intssiduetstm ofP per,.
The nation had acquired a less-a bons tape. sence.—.
'They had Found the late King to have been a Paola in
disguise, and they therefore deterkiined to raublsh a
Patliansentaty as *ell W. a Regal secusity again t the
introduction of Popes I. The Noble Lord en the 11.0.1.
arch had said tnat King Wiliam afterwards chats zed
his opinion. He thought the King's own wilds be..er
'eidetice than even the antimony ..1 that N sole lid,
Le..rieed Lord. He said when be proposed to Parlia-
ment the eel eel of the Ten—a measure in wh ch' he
w uIJ remind them the House of Lords e.i that day
terthed to concur—treat he had no d.nabt Parliament
would, in lieu of the S eeiamental Test devise • thee
sufficient teatimes against the admi sinn of Paris a
poletical poser. The object was plainly the adrui 11,111 •
of all classes of Protestants, mid at the theft e lisle to
make the eaclu ion of P.sposts perpetual. It had been
contended that the law o f eaclusion originated solely
its the plot cf Titus Odes, tut Home the histotrissio.,
*ho was always seedy enough to extenuate the pr se-
tices of the Jesuits, said that these was a pet pet 13.11 Ida •
of the Roman Catholics to moose the a•ce. dant; ef,
their relies*, and that the Prote.tant Conwitatiou theeirhires nos
quired wipeout securities. The Speaker et the Liim.e a.f Cusirs.'.
mune, in his Address to King William, ettepheyetespsewlswevelmob .
plainly proved that in the tinniest nt the nseu ut Mos dap; the s •
fur the eselestoorsa the Roman Catholics wire moderaussif to be
ameutial and inviokhk conditiose of the mew seesestneet oh the
&kids (nstrument. Hit said,• May the people or Karam! ho •
secured in their religion, and their law., and liberties, by she per
petesi establishment of a King and a Legi.houre esseutiatiy Ka-
tes:ant." The neat autbotity to which be w. mai rarer, iw prowl of
au sliming contract f r the cadmium at Pppei y, between the king
et
linglaud and his subjects, was the Act of S. ultmeit. As the
foosedatiou of that Act, the two Houses of Pardariwor p.s.ed
take irsolutious, and th: eighth regulation was Mat turthe. m -40
for securing the religion, and the rights and pried• gee of tin pingik
ought to be deart-ed, and that all the laws now in existence
dd.sat Mei •
✓egime be radioed arad confirmed. This view of site subject:Si
condensed by.ad the Aresses presented to Oes.rge the Erse-sot
accession to Ow Crows. One of these Addressee panteinolg
that they aduirewledged the asuceaseen to the Craws ad gaglasein
the bandy of Brumvskk, accused% to the laws ..f lireghawfadni new
oilier. Now ft was evident that the state id Novof was
wise intereeted.in the seceerotuts et this Hos 4 thaw auk *4 a hit . •
mum oweeowo, sod ash Afforded a guarantee ten she re;teeiselies
eras all the laws a hick steered the Protestant mho. n. The &dire-
doe of rights, beams repeat. did not apply only .1" the Llitioisalleso
Oath, bet said expressly, all the km New Sis torso for the prates-
deo of the Protestant takh, and there was no detest that the Ast ut
Clarks the Second ems one of thew. The Ciaimaikan Oath* was
to be emistreeel by the comicsaiee of the Kist himself; Ma sew
aiderodma mattes .1 civil e• sweet; ht which mutual 'dominos
wipe selpilattel on both ddes, the lama& wee. whether Allot
=mold comeinitiosely *h&c N. j stp to deprive she Prb.
religion Of the grotecti.mef two braisehm Of-the Leglektote ?
they found by this 'Assaf dettlesueot the moos by wheal the Pfb-
natant religion waste be protected. 'This was adherence to the
Wet* law. He did not deny the muuspotenee of Pass,amemt.—
tlht pawls was derived from the people, and k. pima was
idling to moral restraints, from which Mai .1 twee he "WM
Was not exempt, or thermos of Parliament would derowese imio
aielitempilbL and abommnble rawer. He denied that Palmate. bad
alas right to aker the fundemental kers of the country, or to new-
model the trinseswork act the C.aneutution. Foe such purposes. a Paw
ihninent Might robe specially sominuord.There was owe ebs4 of oho
Main Mid which ought to be espunged—that which re :smite
.the helms law*, that no trace might lie Met of the pad 11416/1114
of the Mowry, and that they might on intones opus tie .smde of
a degraded posterity the awesome, of Me deep Injury coey seem •
AIM to halo. It was said that tide An was proper.'.' the
Igoe, peace. but peace led before the cetuaneliered twee& of th.
*dee. Peace might be preserved ter the roost rows**, but
dpeu their Luedships to respect the sow ear sees
.ad grandams, wad ow to doom Um. ea they by igreedeg
So the present eneworre,* to awveldese. Amery, sand misery.
femme had basesneede to the mate of IMAM and if he believed
the. Kaman Cathodes could ever be reconciled to an Ascendant
Protestant Much, hi might admit some fusce.in the asgunient.
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