The fact that the people at large looked upon the proposed National Government as something foreign, something akin to the British rule which had been overthrown, stares the student in the face wherever he turns among the records of the Constitutional period.
Beveridge highlights the public perception of the proposed National Government as foreign and reminiscent of British rule.
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