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PRINCIPLES OF LEGISLATION FOR THE ENSUING SESSIOk.
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The speculations , rumours , and anticipations , which ate afloat as to the ensuing Session of Parliament , will now so sofcn be dissipated by facts , that it is not worth while either to increase their number or to record their existence . Our reader * will
know something at least of the reality of what ministers will do , and how they will stand , almost by the time that they coaid have read our prediction . Our prophecies shall be reserved for a more remote futurity . It is the safest plan . There are some things , however , which may be foretold , without inspiration , and the anticipation of which may lead to a more useful occupation than playing at a game /> f chances . Subject as
the deliberations of the legislature are to contingencies , which have not infrequently raised some incidental question into factitious importance , and secured to it a most disproportionate attention , there yet are certain points which can scarcely fait'to come into early and earnest discussion . To enumerate the most prominent of these , and to indicate the principle in conformity with which each should be legislated upon , is the purpose of our present remarks .
Of course , the Session will commence with a King ' s speech ; and it is almost equally of course that it will be a tame , indefinite , vapid , meaningless composition , and be responded to by an address of a similar description . Voice and echo will correspond like the bowing of Noodle and Doodle in the right royal drama of Tom Thumb . It would be good to break
through this customary farce , and to let us have something which should rather more closely resemble a President ' s Message to Congress . If it should be deemed unseemly to set royalty to read so much sense , wh y not let the minister make his own expose with his own mouth ? At the opening of parliament , the executive meets the representative body to render
its account of the past and to unfold its plans for the future . Surely we have made sufficient advances towards national government to render it proper that this statement should be made in a lucid , decided , and systematic manner . It should be worthy of a wise government and a free people . There should be the full recognition of the responsibility of the
executive deportment during the interval when it acts without having the watchful eye of representation over its movements . There should be a plain and manly avowal of the principles on wi ^ ich it is intended to administer both the domestic and foreign affairs of the country . We know some politicians cannot hear of such a suggestion as this , without imagining a club of doctrinaires p * agluatically laying down a long string of abstract and inapplicable propositions . But it only needs a bold and enli g htened statesman , acting ou his own perception of the already altered con-
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Principles Of Legislation For The Ensuing Sessiok.
PRINCIPLES OF LEGISLATION FOR THE ENSUING SESSIOk .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1836, page 65, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2654/page/1/
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