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" that having been in this session of parliament expelled this house, he was and is incapable of being elected a member to serve in this present parliament. "
The Eloquence of the British Senate: Being a Selection of the Best Speeches ... - Page 122
by William Hazlitt - 1809
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A History of Wilkes-Barré, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania: From Its ..., Volume 1

Oscar Jewell Harvey - Civic leaders - 1909 - 722 pages
...of February, resolved, by a vote of 235 to 89, that Wilkes having suffered expulsion he "was and is incapable of being elected a Member to serve in this present Parliament." February 20th Wilkes issued from his prison an address to the freeholders of the county of Middlesex,...
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Select Statutes, Cases, and Documents to Illustrate English Constitutional ...

Sir Charles Grant Robertson - Constitutional history - 1904 - 478 pages
..."That John Wilkes, Esquire, having been in this Session of Parliament expelled this House, was and is incapable of being elected a Member to serve in this present Parliament," might be read. And the same being read accordingly ; A Motion was made, and the Question being put,...
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The Eighteenth-centur Constitution 1688-1815

E. Neville Williams - 484 pages
...serve in this present Parliament for the County of Middlesex, in the room of John Wilkes, Esquire, who is adjudged incapable of being elected a Member to serve in this present Parliament, and whose Election for the said County has been declared void. cJ, xxxn, 228. (3) 15 APRIL 1769 Then...
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United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ..., Volume 395

United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1969 - 1082 pages
...Parliament, committed a Prisoner to the Tower of London, and expelled [from] this House, . . . is, incapable of being elected a Member to serve in this present Parliament . . . ." Id., at 128. (Second emphasis added.) A new election was ordered, and Walpole was not re-elected....
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United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ..., Volume 395

United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1969 - 1058 pages
...Parliament, committed a Prisoner to the Tower of London, and expelled [from] this House, .. . . is, incapable of being elected a Member to serve in this present Parliament . . . ." Id., at 128. (Second emphasis added.) ' A new election was ordered, and Walpole was not re-elected....
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John Wilkes: A Friend to Liberty

Peter D. G. Thomas - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 302 pages
...Lord Strange, on behalf of the ministry, moved that since Wilkes had been expelled earlier, he was 'incapable of being elected a member to serve in this present Parliament'. William Beckford challenged the argument of precedent. Lord Strange replied that it was 'the certain...
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The North American Review, Volume 114

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1872 - 490 pages
...that John Wilkes, Esquire, having been in this session of Parliament expelled this House, was and is incapable of being elected a member to serve in this present Parliament," declared the election void, and issued a writ for a new one. At the new election Wilkes was returned...
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The Fortnightly, Volume 4; Volume 10

1868 - 718 pages
...that John Wilkes, Esquire, having been in this session of Parliament expelled this House, was and is incapable of being elected a member to serve in this present Parliament;" and his election was declared void. Again the freeholders of Middlesex returned him, and the House...
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Elements of the Law and Practice of Legislative Assemblies in the United ...

Luther Stearns Cushing - Legislation - 1856 - 1100 pages
...John Wilkes, Esquire, having been, in this session of parliament, expelled this house, was, and is, incapable of being elected a member to serve in this present parliament,' was agreeable to the said law of the land, and fully authorized by the law and custom of parliament....
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