I figure to myself those who have constituted the majority of the late House of Commons as the persons arraigned, and the constituencies of the country as those who are called together in the solemn order of the constitution to hear the evidence, and to pronounce the verdict.
Morley likens the political situation to a judicial trial, emphasizing the role of the constituencies in holding the government accountable.
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Yet he had prepared this document for the very purpose of tempting France into a declaration of war.
Gladstone protested against the bill as “inequitable, unusual, and unwise,” and it was largely modified in committee.
It is a case so to speak of “limited liability.” We are bound in honour—you cannot put a legal construction upon it—to see in concert with others that these arrangements are maintained.
Happy the man who from out the floods has fled the storm and found the haven; happy too is he who has surmounted toil and trouble.—Bacchae, 902-5.
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