Excerpt from An Elucidation of the Veto: In a Threefold Address to the Public, the Catholics, and the Advocates of Catholics in Parliament Many of the public then suppose that the Veto, of which they have heard so much, consists in a, direct power of His Majesty to nominate or present Bishops to their offices, in the same manner that he does Protestant Bishops, ' and they think it very natural that he should enjoy this power. But these persons are not sensible of, the nature and import of a nomination or presentation to a bishoprick according to the theology and canon law of Catholics. This then, in the Catholic system, is a pub lic testimony (which the person who presents, makes in the name of the Catholic flock to the Church, in the persons of the ordaining Prelates) of the general merit, and particularly of the orthodoxy of.the candidate pre sented. Now would it not bea palpable absurdity for a person, who, like His Majesty, strongly protests against the supposed heterodoxy and even the idolatry of Catholics in general, to vouch for the orthodoxy of their very teachers Again, the very act of representing a catholic congregation, and the presenting a clergyman to be or dained a Catholic Bishop, is an overt act of religious communion with Catholics. It is needless to ask whether His Majesty wishtzs or his subjects in general wish that he should appear in this light. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.