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Author : Scrutton Robert J.
Title : A People s Runnymede To establish a people's common law parliament "Let the nation rule"
Year : 1941

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Foreword. I will also give them a united heart, and a united course, and they will reverence me continually to their own benefit, and their children's after them, I will then record an everlasting Covenant with them—that I will not cease following them with benefits; I also shall delight to benefit them .... And it shall be a monument of delight and beauty, as formerly to every nation of the earth, when they hear all the benefits that I will confer upon them, and tremble with excitement at all the prosperity and peace which I will confer upon it! Declare to the nations, and publish, and set up a standard! Publish it—hide not.—Jeremiah. During the years between the first and second world wars half the population of the United Kingdom lived in poverty, one quarter were undernourished, a slightly lesser number suffered from deficiency diseases, and seventy-five per cent. of recruits for H.M. Forces were rejected as medically unfit. But very few people felt any sense of personal responsibility for this condition. Less than twenty per cent. of the population took an active interest in politics and only sixty per cent. of voters used their franchise. There was little or no conception of a common social responsibility, or a common national purpose to direct the activities of the State to secure the peace, security, and happiness of the people. Let us be frank about our social sins. ...