fucceed in terminating them in a more favourable manner than it

feemed at firft poffible to be expected, or even in bringing them to an happy iffue. According to the common courfe of Nature, your Majesty has only yet feen the lefs confiderable part of the years of which your reign is to be compofed: that the part which now opens before your Majesty, may be attended with a degree of fatisfaction proportionate to your Majefty's public and private virtues, to your difinterested government, and religious regard for your royal engagements, is the fond hope of

Your Majefty's

Moft humble and

Moft devoted Servant,

And thefe many Years

Subject by Choice,

May, 1784.

J. L. DE LOLME.

INTRODUCTION

Page

CHAP. I. Causes of the Liberty of the English

Nation.---Reafons of the difference between the

Government of France, and that of England.

in England, the great power of the Grown, ef-

pecially under the first Norman Kings, created

an Union between the Nobility and the People 6

CHAP. II. fecond Advantage England had over

France :---it formed one undivided State.

CHAP. III. The Subject continued

24

41

CHAP. IV. Of the Legislative Power

69

CHAP. V. Of the Executive Power

71

CHAP. VI. The Boundaries which the Conftitution

74

78

84

has fet to the Royal Prerogative

CHAP. VII. The fame fubject continued

CHAP. VIII. New Restrictions

CHAP. IX. Of private Liberty, or the Liberty of

Individuals

CHAP. X. On the Law in regard to Civil Matters

that is obferved in England

113

CHAP. XI. The Subject continued. The Courts of

CHAP. XIV. The Subject concluded---Laws rela-

sive to Imprisonments

188

BOOK II.

CHAP. I. Some Advantages peculiar to the English

1. The Unity of the Executive

Conftitution.

Power

195

CHAP. II. The Subject concluded.---The Executive

Power is more easily confined when it is ONE 215

CHAP. III. A fecond Peculiarity.---The Divifion

of the Legislative Power

218

229

CHAP. IV. A third Advantage peculiar to the

English Government. The Bufinefs of pro-

pofing Laws, lodged in the Hands of the

People

CHAP. V. In which an Inquiry is made, whether

it would be an Advantage to public Liberty

that the Laws fhould be enacted by the Votes

of the People at large

24.0

CHAP. VI. Advantages that accrue to the People

from appointing Reprefentatives

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256

CHAP. VII. The Subject continued---The Advan-

tages that accrue to the People from their ap-

pointing Reprefentatives, are very inconfiderable,

unless they also entirely trust their Legislative

Authority to them

260

266

CHAP. VIII. The Subject concluded---Effects that

have refulted in the English Government, from

the People's Power being completely delegated to

their Reprefentatives

CHAP. IX. Afarther Difadvantage of Republican
Governments.---The People are necessarily be-
trayed by thofe in whom they trust

CHAP. X. Fundamental difference between the

English Government and the Governments juft

defcribed.---In England all Executive Authority

is placed out of the hands of thofe in whom the

People truft.---Usefulness of the Power of the

Crown

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27 I

280

CHAP. XI. The Powers which the People them-

felves exercife.---The Election of Members of

Parliament

288

CHAP. XII. The Subject continued.---Liberty of

the Prefs

CHAP. XIII. The Subject continued

CHAP. XIV. Right of Refiftance

291

305

314

324

CHAP. XV. Proofs drawn from Facts of the Truth

of the Principles laid down in this Work.---

1. The peculiar Manner in which Revolutions

have always been concluded in England

CHAP. XVI. Second Difference:---The Manner af-
ter which the Laws for the Liberty of the Sub-

•ject are executed in England

343

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472

CHAP. XVII. A more inward View of the Englif

Government than has hitherto been offered to the

Reader in the course of this Work.---Very ef-

fential differences between the English Monarchy,

as a Monarchy, and all thofe with which we

are acquainted
387

CHAP. XVIII. How far the examples of Nations

that have loft their liberty, are applicable to

England

CHAP. XIX. A few thoughts on the attempts that

may at particular times be made to abridge the

power of the Crown, and on fome of the dangers

by which fuch attempts may be attended

CHAP. XX. A few additional Thoughts on the

right of Taxation, lodged in the Hands of the

Representatives of the People.---What kind of

danger this Right may be expofed to 513

CHAP. XXI. Conclufion.---A few Words on the

Nature of the Divifions that take Place in Eng-

land

498

528

ERRAT A.

Page 7, laft line but one of the text, for fectorum, read feclorum. P.
129, note (a) line 7, for, in regard to all which, read-: in regard to all'
thefe things. P. 465, first line of the note, after the word Deptford,
add, to determine on the affair between Admirals Mathews and
Leftack. P. 472, for Chap. XVII, read Chap. XVIII. P. 506, note
(a) lat line but two, for 438, read 499. P. 508, laft line but feren,
for put, read but, &c.