Civil rights - Great Britain

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The natural and constitutional right of Britons to annual parliaments, universal suffrage and the freedom of popular association : being a vindication of the motives and political conduct of John Thelwall and of the London Corresponding Society in general : intended to have been delivered at the bar of the Old Bailey in confutation of the late charges of high treason ...
John ThelwallDate: 1795
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Memorial for the creditors of Sir Archibald Cockburn elder of Langton
Date: 1762]
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Considerations on Lord Grenville's and Mr. Pitt's bills , concerning treasonable and seditious practices, and unlawful assemblies. By a lover of order.
Godwin, William, 1756-1836.Date: [1795]
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Address and declaration , of the friends of Universal peace and liberty, held at the Thatched House Tavern, St. James's Street. August 20th. 1791. By Thomas Paine, Author of the works intitled Common Sense, and the Rights of Man. Together with some verses, by the same author, Which were printed in a Pensylvanian Newspaper.
Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809.Date: 1791?]
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The groans of the oppressed or, reasons for reviving, extending and perpetuating the late law for preventing frivolous and vexatious arrests, &c. For limitting the Jurisdiction of the Marshal's-Court, and for Establishing a General Court of Conscience, all over the Kingdom, as in the City of London; with some Remarks on the ungenerous Motives that are suggested to have induced certain Great Men to Wink at the Expiration of that Salutary and Necessary Law. In a letter to a very young Member of the present Parliament.
Date: [1748]