Lectures Legal Political And Historical On The Sciences Of Law And Politics Home And Foreign Affairs And John Graham Of Claverhouse Viscount Of Dundee And His Times

Author : Alexander Robertson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483098954
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (989 download)

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Download or read book Lectures, Legal, Political and Historical, on the Sciences of Law and Politics written by Alexander Robertson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-14 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Lectures, Legal, Political and Historical, on the Sciences of Law and Politics: Home and Foreign Affairs; And John Graham of Claverhouse, Viscount of Dundee, and His Times However, in consequence of the vacancy which will shortly occur in the parliamentary representation of Dundee, or, at least, in consequence of the opportunities which, I hope, will arise at, or before, the next General Parliamentary Election, I do not feel that there is any imperative necessity for explaining my political opinions at present. With pertinacious obstinacy, I have explained, in Dundee and elsewhere, what these are, and have made no secret about my preference to represent my native town of Dundee, in the House of Commons, rather than any other constituency. At the General Election of 1885, I thought my time for contesting Dundee as an independent Conservative candidate had, at length, arrived. But, although I had issued my address to the Electors, I retired from the contest in order to give the official Conservative candidate the advantage of having no Conservative opponent, and to save myself the expense of an unsuccessful contest, and, as future circumstances. 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.