Excerpt from Common Consent, the Basis of the Constitution of England: Or, Parliamentary Reform, Considered and Tried by the Tests of Law and Reason The lords are the virtual representatives of the na tion by virtue of their legal appointment by the king in execution of the officfe to which he was appointed. 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.