was the same. It came regularly before the house, and it was their business to determine upon it. They did determine it; for they declared Mr. Taylor not duly elected."
Instead of examining the justness of this representation, I shall beg leave to oppose against it my own view of the case, in as plain a manner and as few words as I am able.
It was the known and established law of parliament, when the charge against Mr. Walpole came before the house of commons, that they had power to expel, to disable, and to render incapable for offences. In virtue of this power they expelled him.
Had they, in the very vote of expulsion, adjudged him, in terms, to be incapable of being re-elected, there must have been at once an end with him. But though the right of the house, both to expel, and adjudge incapable, was clear and indubitable, it does not appear to me, that the full operation and effect of a vote of expulsion singly was so. The law in this case had never been expressly
