The American Commonwealth

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The American Commonwealth
Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount, 1838-1922
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A stranger had no means of making himself known to them and would not think of offering himself. That the habits of England are different may be due, so far as the eighteenth century , is concerned, to the practice of borough-mongeriag, under which candidates unconnected with the place were sent down by some influen- tial person, or bought the seat from the corrupt corporation or the limited body of freemen. Thus the notion that a stranger might do well enough for a borough grew up, whUe m coun...ties it remained, tUl 1885, a maxim that a candidate ought to own land in the county ^ — the old law required a freehold qualifi- cation somewhere — or ought to live in, or ought at the very least (as I once heard a candidate, whose house lay just out- side the county for which he was standing, allege on his own behalf) to look into the county from his wiadow while shaviag in the morning.^ The English practice might thus seem to be an exception due to special causes, and the American prac- 1 The old law (9 Anne, o.

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