TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE

ENGLISH GOVERNMENT

AND CONSTITUTION

FOR THE USE OF STUDENTS.

WITH EXPLANATORY DERIVATIONS AND NUMEROUS NOTES

"There is no civil government that hath been known more divinely and harmoni.
ously tuned, more equally balanced, as it were, by the hand and scale of justice, than
is the Commonwealth of England.”—MILTON.

"The Constitution of England is indeed an exquisite construction.”—WARREN.
"Among all the sovereignties I know in the world, that in which the public good
is best attended to and the least violence exercised on the people is that of England."
-PHILIPPE DE COMINES.

•BODI

LONDON:

J. AND W. RIDER, PRINTERS,

BARTHOLOMEW CLOSE.