Excerpt from Present State of the British Constitution: Historically Illustrated When, says'this able lawyer, by the free operation of the sinking fund, our national debts;shall be lessened, when the posture of foreign affairs, and the universal introduction Of a well planned and national militia will suffer our formidable army to be thinned and regulated; and, when (in con sequence of all) our taxes shall be gradually reduced; this adventitious. Power of the crown will slowly and imperceptibly dimi nish, as it slowly. And imperceptibly arose. 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.