Volume 2

France in 1829-30 / By Lady Morgan.

  • Sydney, Lady Morgan
Date:
1831
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: France in 1829-30 / By Lady Morgan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    betrays them into the further inference, that the copy is not only spiritless, but unfaithful. The narrowness of the bases upon which the French representative system rests; the undue interference of the authorities in elections; the king’s power of legislating by ordonnances; the insecurity of personal liberty; and the want of sufficient guarantees for the permanence of free institutions—are defects too salient to be over- looked; and they give currency to a notion that the French constitution tends towards ab- solutism. Both these opinions are erroneous. Be- tween the French and English governments, the points of contrast are more numerous, than those of resemblance; and the probable ten- dency of affairs in France is rather to extend and consolidate popular rights, than to develop tyranny ; notwithstanding the good will of the court, the faubourg, and the Jesuits, to destroy all constitutions. In England, the powers of the state, how-
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