This was the affirmation in practical shape of the resolution of the House of Commons in the previous year, that it possessed in its own hands the power to remit and impose taxes, and that the right to frame bills of supply in its own measure, manner, time, and matter, is a right to be kept inviolable.
Morley emphasizes the House of Commons' assertion of its power over taxation and financial legislation.
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A rendering less apt for this occasion finds favour with some scholars, that true virtue can never be restored to those who have once fallen away from it.
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If they, situated exactly as we are, decline to join, we are not bound single-handed to make up the deficiencies of the rest.
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