The Constitutional Experiments of the Commonwealth a Study of the Years 1649 16

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The Constitutional Experiments of the Commonwealth a Study of the Years 1649 16
Jenks, Edward, 1861-1939
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3 Carlyle, in. 214. 4 Cromwelliana, 129.
THE PROTECTORATE. 73 possessed of full parliamentary powers and privileges, and that they would thenceforth occupy the historic House \ This was a huge mistake, for it was at once contradictory to fact and feeling. It led them to suppose that they could safely exercise all the arbitrary powers of the Long Parliament, and at the same time pointed them out as the successors, with all the old inadequacy, of that unpopular body. Had they acted strictly
...as a Council, or advising body, they would probably have done well, for their in- tentions were excellent, and their intelligence great, but they had not the experience necessary for a Parliament, they were deficient in knowledge of the world, and, as claiming to be a representative body, they were clearly usurpers. The absence of a Parliament the nation would probably have borne with equanimity, at least for a time, but the existence of a sham Parliament was a mockery. However, a Parliament they styled themselves, and we may as well style them henceforth, in accordance with custom, the "Little Parliament.

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