Note Footnote 35 — Chapter XIV · OF RECONSIDERATION.
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: “The English Parliament rigidly maintains the principle that when a subject has been once decided, either in the affirmative or negative, it is to remain permanently as the judgment of the house. To remedy the inconveniences that sometimes occur, it resorts to various expedients; as, by passing an explanatory act, or an act to rectify mistakes in an act, etc.”—Ed.] Return to text