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Often appears with: sinking fund · public finance and debt · public credit vs unauthorized debt · contracts, oaths, and obligation · civil list expense limits
Usually: argument (1) · censure (1) · indignation (1)
“Thus they established an arbitrary standard for that dignity which Parliament had defined and limited to a legal standard.” Edmund Burke, Thoughts on the Present Discontents, and Speeches · insight
He argues that treating Civil List debt like parliamentary national debt misrepresents public credit, and claims Ministers promised nothing to confine expenses, instead citing the “honour of the Crown.”
regularity things that could not possibly come before them. After this stroke of orderly and Parliamentary wit and humour, they went into the Committee, and very generously voted the payment. There was a circumstance in that debate too remarkable to be overlooked. This debt of the Civil List was all along argued upon the same footing as a debt of the State, contracted upon national authority. Its payment was urged …