By S. Scarrow
Views on Political events is a suite of basic files that express the altering understandings of partisan politics through the 19th century, the 1st period within which events performed a crucial function in governing. The texts taken from British, American, German and French ebook, converse to cutting-edge scholars and students of heritage and political technology by way of exhibiting the deep roots of still-current debates approximately consultant democracy and mass politics. The reader is designed to fill a gap in modern instructing and scholarship by means of assembling demanding to entry resources that shape the foundation of recent debates approximately events.
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Pp. 213–224. Williams, Glyn and John Ramsden. 1990. Ruling Britannia: A Political History of Britain, 1688–1988. London: Longmans. Wilson, Woodrow. 1885. Congressional Government: A Study in American Politics. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, and Co. PART 1. Eighteenth Century Antecedents CHAPTER 1 The Patriot King and Parties* Henry Saint-John, Viscount Bolingbroke 1738 The author of this essay served as a Tory member of the House of Commons for over a decade before he was created Viscount Bolingbroke as a reward for his service in diplomatic negotiations.
In the main body of the texts I have generally included unabridged sections and have avoided editorial elisions as much as possible. In contrast, I have done a bit more editing of footnotes, particularly in cases where authors use these for long digressions. I have, however, kept most of the original notes that provide references to other texts and other authors, because these are useful evidence of the intellectual context in which writers were developing their views about party-based government.
Of what sort of materials must that man be made, how must he be tempered and put together, who can sit whole years in Parliament, with five hundred and fifty of his fellow-citizens, amidst the storm of such tempestuous passions, in the sharp conflict of so many wits, and tempers, and characters, in the agitation of such mighty questions, in the discussion of such vast and ponderous interests, without seeing any one sort of men, whose character, conduct, or disposition, would lead him to associate himself with them, to aid and be aided, in any one system of public utility?
