His rights were secured by special clauses in Magna Carta.
The Light Railways Act and the Locomotives on Highways Act were added to the statute book in 1896, and various clauses in the Finance Act effected reforms in respect of the death duties, the land-tax, farmers' income-tax and the beer duty.
The two next clauses are obscure.
It was at first rejected at the polls, but was finally ratified in November 1869 without the disfranchising clauses.
It is useless to suppose that this destructive criticism from within can be neutralized by generously sprinkling the pages of the classical writers with interpretation clauses.
