Excerpt from Plain Reading for Plain: Being an Account of the English Constitution, and the King's Reform Bill Voice of the People - and not a few of them have been fought and struggled for during centuries past. By the Constitution, the people are to be governed by three different Estates or Parties first, the King; second, the Lords; third, the Commons, or Members of the Commons House of Parliament; the King makes the Peers, and their dignities descend from father to son. The Commons, according to the Constitution, are to be chosen by the People. The main object of these observations is, to shew that the people do not now choose the Members of Parliament - and this is what is sought to be amended by the Re form Bill. 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.