The Free Britons Memorial, to All the Freeholders, Citizens and Burgesses, Who Elect the Members of the British Parliament, Presented in Order to the Effectual Defence of Their Injured Right of Election
- William Bollan (author)
- Jack P. Greene (collection editor)
This pamphlet is a political pamphlet by William Bollan addressed to the freeholders, citizens, and burgesses who elected members to the British Parliament. Its central purpose was to defend what Bollan characterized as the violated electoral rights of British subjects, making it a contribution to the heated constitutional debates of the late 1760s surrounding parliamentary representation.
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