Excerpt from Remarks on the Essentials of a Free Government and on the Genuine Constitution of the British House of Commons: In Answer to the Theories of Modern Reformers 'mary objects of political association, who, like him, are convinced that the delusion, which in the pre sent day seems to fascinate many of the most zealous votaries of political liberty, originates in misconceptions respecting the very substance of that freedom, for which they contend. The means, by which political liberty is secured, seem to be confounded by them with that liberty itself; and a participation in the direction of public affairs, exercised either immediately by the subject, or mediately by his representative, is, it should seem, included by them in the very notion of free dom, and considered as one of its essential ingre dients. As this extravagant opinion affords ample scope for the wildest and most indefinite specula tions on the subject of government; so is it calcu lated only to produce in the minds of the people a spirit of licentiousness, and to ap the very founda tions of civil obedience.' For the very first conclu sion, that the subject is naturally led to draw from it, is obviously this - that he is no farther free. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.