This, however, was not true of the Scotch boroughs, which were, with few exceptions, grouped into districts returning a single member apiece; a system that has been maintained to the present day.
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A. Lawrence Lowell
Other boroughs that had once been places of consequence had, in the course of time, fallen into decay.
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A. Lawrence Lowell
But while the franchise in the boroughs was thus based, like that in the counties, upon land, the effect was entirely different, and was intended to be so.
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A. Lawrence Lowell