283:; the Monarch is the antient stock from which have sprung those goodly branches of the Legislature, the Lords and Commons, that at the same time give ornament to the Tree, and afford shelter to those who seek protection under it. But these are still only branches, and derive their origin and their nutriment from their common parent; they may be lopped off, and the Tree is a Tree still; shorn indeed of its honours, but not, like them, cast into the fire. The Kingly Government may go on, in all its functions, without Lords or Commons...
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Commons or the King should walk first in the procession! Which is the Root, which the Branches! In good faith, they cut up the Root and the Branches! A fine Business of Law Grammar, which is the Substantive, which the adjective. – When an author lays down
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claimed that the prosecution of Reeves was a pretext for the spread of Foxite views. He considered the tree metaphor "slovenly" and wrote that he should not have criticised 18th century Whigs. However, he added that Reeves was still a person of "considerable
Abilities" whose argument in the
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where he supported the King's opinion that the coronation oath prohibited Roman
Catholics from Parliament. He also supported his dismissal of the Pitt government. Reeves further claimed that presbyterianism rather than popery was the greatest threat to Church and state.
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and published loyalist pamphlets. The Crown and Anchor association met for the final time on 21 June 1793. These loyalist associations mostly disappeared within a year "after successfully suppressing the organizations of their opponents". The leading opposition Whig
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Attorney General to prosecute Reeves for "libel on the British Constitution" due to his tree metaphor. A parliamentary committee was set up to determine the authorship of the
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Reeves was acquitted of libel, although the jury censured him for writing a "very improper publication". Reeves published anonymously the Second Letter in 1799 and in 1800 the Third and Fourth
Letters of his
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claimed in 1830 that Reeves had told him that he hated the Pitt administration and its principles and that bitter experience had taught him that one must either kiss or kick the government's arse.
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Association's publications and claimed that had they been printed earlier in the century they would have been prosecuted as treasonable Jacobite tracts due to their advocacy of the
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Discussions on the question of whether inhabitants of the United States, born there before the
Independence, are, on coming to this Kingdom, to be considered as natural born subjects
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as to be revered and adhered to, – at any former time would any one have made it a cause of quarrel, that he had given the priority to any
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A Chart of Penal Laws, exhibiting by lines and colours an historical view of crimes and punishments, according to the law of
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For King, Country, and Constitution: The English Loyalists and the French Revolution
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