Electoral sociability [ Politics & Society ]
… mutual abuses, odious nick-names, personal affronts are kept alive and warm from three year to three year’, complained Daniel Defoe. 14 12 . A Letter to a Friend upon Occasion of the House of Commons Passing a Bill Intituled an Act for Enlarging … the Continuance of Parliaments (1716), p. 19. 13 . The Alteration of the Triennial Act Considered (1716), p. 33. 14 . [Daniel Defoe], Arguments about the Alteration of Triennial Elections (1716), p. 2. Once the poll had been completed …
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