This text makes a constitutional case for local self-government based on the historical precedents of the early dominions of Great Britain, arguing that the jurisdiction of Parliament over internal revenue was not extended to Ireland and was only exercised in Wales, once it achieved actual representation. Citing Locke, Molesworth and Sydney, he laid claim to real Whiggery, by which he did not mean “certain modern Whigs, who seem more fond of the word, than anything belonging to the characte...
