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The necessity of passing a Reform bill through an anti-reform parliament thus produced a situation of unsurpassed perplexity.
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John Morley
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Morley describes the challenges of passing reform legislation in a parliament resistant to change.
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What I endeavoured to show was that King George III., without changing his opinion of the justice of his war against the colonies, was obliged to give it up on account of a change of public opinion, and was not open to blame for so doing.
I think they will commit a great error if they take this course.
All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.
Fitness is henceforth to be the criterion of eligibility.
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