4584. LEGISLATURES, Dissolution by George III.—[further continued].
When the representative
body have lost the confidence of their constituents,
when they have notoriously made sale of
their most valuable rights, when they have assumed
to themselves powers which the people
never put into their hands, then, indeed, their
continuing in office becomes dangerous to the
State, and calls for an exercise of the power
of dissolution.—
Rights of British America. Washington ed. i, 137.
Ford ed., i, 442.
(1774)
