The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-01-02 00:00:00

maturity that it is entitled to represent the civil end
political liberty of European humanity, to bring them
into public discussion and to assert their claims. LK -
us not deceive ourselves respecting the spirit of oar
times; 300 years ago, the spirit of that .g•coeid
neither be restrained by the diplomacy of Charlet( V.
nor by the bloody tribunals of Alba, nor by the
holy league of the crafty Vic... Chancellor Held, ear
by the newly organized satellites of Rome—the Or.
der of the Jesuits. In his cell the Lord of two

quarters of the world found that he had striven la
rain agrinst the spirit of his oge; and from ties
grave of Egmont rose the palm of Dutch liberty.. -
A few disorders in our days will be as little able to
present the triumph of the good cause of pviiticil
Protestantism, as the good cause of religions Pro-
testantism could be endangered by the tumults of
Carlstadt, fanaticism and esaltation, the mystical
new Zion of the Anabaptists of Munster, and loch
like disorders inseparable from great revoletione...
This much may our age learn from the struggle a
the Mb century, that these kingdoms and states
came hest off when Prince and People, in en under.
standing with each oth. r, adopted the new sysreen;
this was showu by Frederick the Wise, of Sasony ;
Gustavus Vasa, Elizabeth, &c. How many streams
of blood would Francis.. the First and Henry the
Eighth hate spared their People, if they had under-
stood the principles of Protestantism ? flow would
Charles the Fifth shine in history if he had hid ti
enough to avail himself of the new system, instead
of oscillating between the two, and failing in the
pitiful manner he did ?
What then are the principles of the political Pro
(Mantises of our days ? This is a subject respecting
which it would be too much to expect a oniversat
agreement. But there can be Co question that it is the
following simple preposition, by which the system or
civil and political liberty differs essentially from fee.
dalism and sultanism:—lrt. The Seale rests on con-
tract ; ed. The ruling power, flowing from the Sore.
reigety of the people, rests on the beingisklivered over;
ruler and people are two equal quantities ; bet there+.
ler represents the Sovereignty of the People and is,-oe
that account personalty inviolable; the hereditary
dynasty of the ruler's is most suitable to right, history,
and the interests of the People; this is the only ra-
tional action of legitimacy. 3d. The Rights of the
People are represented and managed by free &pre.
s.entatices chosen by the People and independent of
the Government, who in common with the Ruler
agree respecting the Constitution. and have equal
part iu the Legislative power (the Constitution ought
neither like, that• Wirtemberg to he framed by a
Ministerial Council and laid before the Represents-,
tires, nor like the first in France, to he the [was/
work of a National Assembly, but ought to be the
work of an equal number of persons deputed by the
Ruler and the Representatives). 4th. The basis.?
this Constitution must pronounce Ike eqiiality et
all the Citizens before the law, the separation of the
Legislation. Judicial, and Emotive powers, the par.
ticipation of the Representatives in the Legislation-;

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lii irolii,',. ilailtled to *•;a101, `eclsiotaAalgariees •mt- • : 10'
rsisialilt sitiight; forme ittiltee,* Dottrel :tier 1
'Politicians of -Earrope;.tinitilmerthe*yrist songic:
ore Iteielimenfatiie' Caiitiletiosts valved, .wit' • re.
:t to their itakisimiNiiiiir; animation, activity,. %Ri-
on, prosperitn'and sc.:table iitesidal orgr nies• ion, ~
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rise as high Above the foellel States, as the : ate, .
People that rearacgd,Prolest &Mises lase for 300
rs risen above those Stott" that 'moaned tees to the .. ~
system. Let es onky glance. at the blitory of these
).yetis, and reject on. the,,enjmatiee of Great
lain, the Republic 9( the United Provinces, the •
ngdosi of Prussia, end tiis mhole'of Scandinavia . ~.
I the sport's of Germany I. • Bow insisieetim sad . -,
to elevating is theahi story. of 1140..4,100e% tootraotal , ,•
M the ,relszatlon of Italy, .Spairr,, Pelorid. -ind
Ise*, diktfro to the time of the Resolttirrer If • .
Port, are tleetauded for. the. albrmetlon Illitiil hew . 1
111,_11801*•pewitie wilb..RepeessetseiTeililesas h 11114•11 : - ,:••• i
411Fitt,....,14fira144, Siagdaler*llaoltSatiablvilastoo, -
t• 1 ho- law preponderarity of North Mims • ..
a, of-Great Britain of Fiance since. the Revolts- .1%,
on, and contrast. with it the latest transactioos• is
lain, Portugal.. Sardinia, &c.; or, as esteems" - • 4 '`.
Impose the politically free North America with the
altanism of 'lgnite,. ! 11..pt.ns not folget in oar ems . •
irtirular history, that the Tyrol, Wirtemitslg, end
ast Friesland, hate proved what power individual
r evinces are capable of, when possessed of i ge-
sine popular Representation, though in the Con- •
itutions, of these provinces, which were soltalele %
bough for earlier times, many things are smolt.. .
Me in our days. Again, as in the age 'of the
reformation, by various lnterint - Sininliameout .
:hutches in particular places, a miserable mail- if., .
'mafiosi of Protestantism and Catholiciim was 'at- A
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torrpted, so in our times theoretical writers Mad
ripl omit! ic cohlers ~.have attempted to &maga- 4, f,
ate Feudalism and the 'Representrtive System. a-- •
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or what but ass amalgamation of two contradictotry
nd opposite iysterns is Virsneenheire's Chainber of •
ITrobles in the Wirtemherg Constitution (not to mew. ~
ion. its .otl%er imperfections), and Bionzenberg's Oa.
lusion of all but lauded proprietors from the It«ttre- ' 4 1
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,entation, as if the prosperity and distress of a slits
:oncerned only the possessor of a. landed estate 1.
Again,4 as in tire age of the Reformation, Pro... r
testaatism did not originate with Princes, Coortlora, .i,
or Nobles, but with the third estate, which friss
many causes causes easily traced in the last qoarter of the
Middle age, was then ripe for ecclesiastical and ft..
ligious freedom; so in our days the polvesful impulse
towards Representative Constitutions originated with
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Cabinets and political Boards, no more than with tbe
populace, but with the noblest men of the bight, cold..
sated third Was, which for center'', hes already fat
fact represented the intellectual and moral power of i
the European nations, and has now attained to that ii.
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