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21. Resolved {That} /that/, notwithstanding this deplorable dereliction of one of

the most uncontrovertibly established Constitutional principles, such as has been the

force of duty and reason in the consciences of succeeding Monarchs, that the truth of

the proposition, by which it is affirmed, that the sense of the people, considered as

the standard, to which the conduct of their rulers ought to keep itself conformable,

is not the sense entertained by the people, in this or that past period of time, and

since then varied and departed from, but, on the contrary is, at all times, the sense

of the people, taken in its very freshest state, viz the sense of the people, in that

state in which, on the occasion of any fresh measure of government, it has place and

manifests itself, - has, in the most express terms, in various speeches from the

throne, as well in the reign of his present Majesty, as in the reign of his late

Majesty, been repeatedly recognized.

22. That, in particular, in a speech bearing date the 21 st of

April 1741, his said late Majesty, after saying – “I will accordingly give the

necessary orders for a new Parliament,” was pleased to add – “There is not any thing

I set so high a value upon as the love and affection of my people; in which I have so

entire a confidence, that it is with great satisfaction I see this opportunity put

into their hands of giving me fresh proofs of it in the

choice of their Representatives.”

2. And again, in a Speech bearing date the 12 th of November

1747, “One of my principal views, in calling this Parliament, was that I might

receive the most clear and certain information of the sense of my people.” –

3. And, in like manner, in a Speech bearing date the 6 th of

Nov r. 1761, his Majesty, that now is, was pleased to say – “I

am glad to have an opportunity of receiving the truest

information of the sense of my people by a new choice of their Representatives”.