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1821 Nov r 26 /Dec r 23[?]/ /1822 Feb. 13/

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'.5. Admission Universal

Objections answered

4. For Draughtsmanship, a foreigner as such, affords peculiar promise. Cause or reason - Exception from the sinister action of native particular interest and prejudices

So much for a general and preparatory intimation. Clear, correct or adequately comprehensive the idea thus conveyed can not as yet be expected to be. To invest it with those several qualities will be the endeavour of the ensuing pages.

First as to singleness in preference to multiplicity of hands.

6. Objection 6. The open mode is ineffectual to its proposed purpose. Be the draughts ever so numerous, the constituted authorities will still do with them as they please. Of each draught, they will make more or less use, or no use at all, as best suits their views: by the supposition no more on this occasion than on any other are they subject to any legal controul.

Answer. True: not to any controul other than that moral controul which is applied by the tribunal of public opinion. But this controul it is the design, and will be the effect of the proposed open mode to apply in the most efficient manner: and be it or be it not sufficient the situation of the authorities in question puts an exclusion upon every other. In what way, in the instance of every rationalized code, the rationale interwoven with it will operate in the character of a bridle has been shewn above: (See Sections 2 and 3:) as also upon whom it thus operates. In every aptly penned draught the constituted authorities whose decision it will call for will see and feel a bridle: a bridle which they will be restrained from treating it with neglect: a bridle the power of which will be in proportion to its aptitude. In the text itself, were that all, their power would feel a snaffle: and to this snaffle a curb is added by the rationale. Take the case of the Representatives of the people. By and by come the Elections: and then come questions upon questions to them. Here is this draught (naming it): in it were all these good things naming them). All neglected: and your will /you/ for the neglect, or you let it pass without voting against it. What have you to say for yourself?
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