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A Review of the Constitutions of the Principal States of Europe, and of the United States of America; Given Originally as Lectures
A Review of the Constitutions of the Principal States of Europe and of the United States of America Given Originally as Lectures Author:Delacroix General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1792 Original Publisher: Printed for G.G.J. and J. Robinson Subjects: Constitutional law Constitutional history Political science Europe United States Law / Constitutional Philosophy / Political Political Science / Constitutions Notes: This is a black and wh... more »ite OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: C. H.. A P. XIV, i . i ,. ' ' i Of The Revolution Of Svvepen iv 1772. 'F all the revolutions -which the conftitution of Sweden has experienced, the moft extraordinary, Iftd tjie moft deferving of attention on account of'its plan, its execution, and its confequences, is the-'one I am now going to confider. What I have faid concerning the fituation of this monarchy fince the death of Charles the Xllth, muft ftill be frefli in the remembrance of the reader : he will recoiled that the nation, after having bowed its humbled head before the power of two defpots, had again exalted her fovereignty from the bofom of misfortunes, and given, the crown to two " foreign princes j who confented to wear it, ori coftdi- '. tion of reigning only under the empire of the laws, and of a diet, whofe prefence alone could fufpcnd their authority. We have feen the father of the prefcnt king forced to condefcend to all the demands, to all the pretenfions of thefe ftates; and even his paternal authority obliged to give way before that of a moft oppreffive ariftocracy. 'how How far were thefe ftates, fo. abfolute in their will, from believing; that the young prince whofe fub- governor they difmified, under pretence that his employment was fuperfluous, and whom they forbid all communication with his preceptor, fhould become the abfolute fovereign of Sweden, and annihilate their power! and yet t...« less