Note 176 — Chapter XV · ON THE REIGN OF WILLIAM III.

See the Somers Tracts, but still more the collection of State Tracts in the time of William III., in three volumes folio. These are almost entirely on the whig side; and many of them, as I have intimated in the text, lean so far toward republicanism as to assert the original sovereignty of the people in very strong terms, and to propose various changes in the constitution, such as a greater equality in the representation. But I have not observed any one which recommends, even covertly, the abolition of hereditary monarchy.