The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol. 10. - Parliamentary Debates I.
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By Samuel Johnson
6 Mar, 2020
The government of this country has long and justly been considered the best among the nations of Europe, and the English people have ever evinced a proportionate desire for information in its proceedings. But in the earlier days of our constitution,
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The government of this country has long and justly been considered the best among the nations of Europe, and the English people have ever evinced a proportionate desire for information in its proceedings. But in the earlier days of our constitution, we shall find that much jealousy on the part of our rulers debarred the people from access to the national deliberations. Queen Elizabeth, with a sagacity that derived no assurance from the precedents of former times, foresaw the mighty power of the press, as an engine applied to state purposes, and accordingly aroused the spirit of her subjects, by causing the first gazettes to be published in the year of the armada [Footnote: See sir J. Mackintosh's Defence in the Peltier case.]: and D'Ewes's journals of her parliaments contain the earliest reports of parliamentary debates. Less
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