Ann. Reg., 14 mars 1770, p

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

11. Ibid. : ... the liberty of public association ; or the security with which malcontents may communicate their sentiments, concert tbeir plans and practise every mode of opposition short of actual revolt, before the executive power can be legally justiûed in disturbing them.

12. V. Josiah Tucker, A brief essay on the advantages which respecHvely attend France and Great Britain, with regard to Trade etc., 3d éd., 1753. — Burke, Observations on a laie publication intituled a the State of the Nation », 1769 (Works, vol. II, pp. 139-140;. — Mais Blackstoi).* I Comm. 172), après avoir expliqué pour quelles excellentes raisons la e titution anglaise exige une « qualification » électorale, ajoute : « This is the spirit ofour constitution : not that I assert it is in fact qui te so perfect as I hâve hère endeavoured to describe it ; for, ifany altération might be v\ ished or suggested in the présent frame of parliaments, it should be in favour of a more complète représentation of the people. »