Excerpt from Treatise on the Laws Concerning the Election of the Different Representatives Sent From Scotland to the Parliament of Great Britain: With a Preliminary View of the Constitution of the Parliaments of England and Scotland, Before the Union of the Two Kingdoms Neither mull: we fuppofe, that the fame identical mode of government took place in each of the feveral kingdoms, formed upon the ruins of the Roman empire; or that the arifiocratical liberty, with which each was at firfl influenced, continued to produce the fame effects In all. In fome, the power of the monarch was more, and in others lefs limited. In fome, the national council was compofed only of a few great and leading men; in others it was more difl'ufed, comprehending a greater part of the body of the people. The circumflan cos of fituation, climate, foil, commerce, and religion, the difpolitions and talents of princes, the faetions amongfi the great men. 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.