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10. Fragm, on Gov. chap. IV, § xxiv, Bowring, vol. I, p. 288 : ... The liberty of the presSj or the security with which every man,be he of the one class or the other, may make known his complaints and remonstrances to the whole community.

11. Ibid.: ... the liberty of public associathn \ or the security with which malcontents may communicate their sentiments, concert their plans and praetise every mode of opposition short of aclual revolt, before the executive power can be legally justified in disturbing them;

12. V. Josiah Tucker, A brief essay on the advantages which rexpecHvely attend France and Gi^eat Dritain, with regard to Trade etc., 3d éd., 1753. — Burke, Observations on a late publication intituled « the Stote of the Nation », 1769 (Works, vol. II, pp. 139-140). — Mais Blackstone {l Comm. 172), après avoir expliqué pour quelles excellentes raisons la constitution anglaise exige une « qualiûcation » électorale, ajoute : « This is the spiritofour constitution : not that I assert it is in fact quite so perfect as I hâve hère endeavoured to describe it; for, if a ny altération might be wished or suggested in the présent frame of parliaments, it should be in favour of a more complète représentation of the people. »