The Governance of England, Otherwise Called, The Difference Between an Absolute and a Limited Monarchy |
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Page iv - I received the idea of a polity in which there is the same law for all, a polity administered with regard to equal rights and equal freedom of speech, and the idea of a kingly government which respects most of all the freedom of the governed...