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vindicate their own
"
rights and
"position", vindicating
h
"howers, and
they
were 'com.
"pelled to take this step" by
not only of their posi.
hon in the Council", but also
of their treatment on
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cause euch reduchowe was in
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their opinion right
cessary
as because the motion.
ed to them
appeared
a
conirnient.
method of asserting their posi.
"how"
rights
"their
and powers, and
proustinng against the treatment which they had previously
with "on many
many frirancial
questions ?" The treatment to
which they refer consists, avex-
plained in the rest
of
ragraph, of their being
the pa
being used
when required and
disregarded,
when not required, of their
"
being too often ignored","and_
"1
given
to understand that their
"votes and opinion are vaheless.
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