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James Beck: “To say the parliament is absolute and arbitrary is a contradiction.”

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To say the parliament is absolute and arbitrary is a contradiction.
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James Beck
Republican · Pennsylvania

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Beck asserts the contradiction in claiming absolute power for Parliament.

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