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20 June 1811
Abdication
Corruption & Idleness
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Misuses by and through corruption - non-uses or to speak at the same time more popularly /more intelligibly/ and /at the same time/ more extensively and properly idleness, these proceeding on the ground /prescription/ of Blackstone’s law the law of England as lay /laid/ down by Blackstone I venture to state as the grounds of a forfeiture which to the purpose of the necessary remedy ought in the present case to be considered as having been incurred /taken place/.
Children of corruption, children of idleness - children of idleness and corruption - under /to/ /among/ one or other of these heads may to this purpose the population of the House or at the least such a majority as /as decided/ while it carries with it the power gives the law character and complection of the whole be distributed.
By the corruption of the corrupt, the trust (speaking {still} with Blackstone) the trust (I say) the power being a trust has I say been forfeited. By the idleness of the idle (speaking still with Blackstone) this same trust has I say been - that is the exercise of it at least has I say been abdicated: by corruption and idleness taken together by the act of those who being habitual corrupt have been occasionally idle and by the act of those who being habitually idle have been occasionally corrupt, the trust itself that is the power attached to /which forms the base of/ it has been both forfeited and abdicated.
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Title: [20 June 1811 A.2. Abdication]Description: 20 June 1811 A.2. Abdication Positives[?] 1 3 3 So much for the misguided King. In regard to the Honourable House, the proposition /propositions/ which on the present occasion I have to submitt to the consideration of the people, is - 1 that, as to their /its/ /the exercise of its/ share of the supreme power, the Honourable House has not only forfeited but abdicated it: 2 and that for the filling up of the gap thus made, it is high time for the people, in conjunction with the two other branches of the supreme power, for the people acting by and for this purpose, making use of the Honourable House in its present form, for the people, following the example /proceeding upon the pattern/, set as will be seen by the Honourable House itself, to organize /provide /take measures/ for the organizing/ upon constitutional grounds, a succedaneum to the Honourable House - a new House so composed as to preserve it from that line /course/ of conduct by which the pernicious effects /results/ indicated as above by the terms forfeited and abdicated have been /were/ brought about. By an habitually efficient majority - I speak of the habitually dependent and consequently /thence habitually/ corrupt part this trust the highest of trusts has, I say, taking even Blackstone for Judge become forfeited: - by the non-attendant part constituting almost always a vast majority, it is I say taking the decision from the same Judge abdicated - repeatedly and almost constantly abdicated /-dicated - for and during this last half-century - it being needless to go any higher repeatedly and by one continued and continued and habitual act carried on without abdication, abdicated./
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Title: [19 June 1811 Abdication Blackstone]Description: 19 June 1811 Abdication Blackstone 5 9 35 The doctrine thus delivered is as from so pure and unexceptionable a source, let us apply it to the case of the Honourable House. No office consists in a share of the supreme power in the state, and forasmuch as among the duties of it is that of superintending the conduct of the holder of that other branch of the supreme power which in one /some/ points of view may be said to be the highest, it is not without its pretensions to the character /stile and title/ of the highest also. Now, Sir in relation to this office of supreme controul, the position /positions/ I have to maintain is /are/ that by the present holders of it, it has been forfeited, forfeited both /not only/ by misuser and non-user: forfeited and not only forfeited but moreover abdicated: by misuser /non-user/ as well as by non-user /mis-user/ forfeited, by non-user not only forfeited but abdicated beyond all descent: forfeited and abdicated, not to speak of that other mode of {dereliction} which to some eyes might seem applicable to the purpose and which consists in the “surrender of its franchises into the hands of the King, which,” according to our Commentator “is a kind of suicide”.
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Title: [[…?] June 1811 H Abdication]Description: […?] June 1811 H Abdication Remedy 52 H. of I.[?] not an ordinary Corporation. J.B. advises[?] in Procedure on B.R. that every man has a remedy: this […?] not being the remedy we must look out for some other . {Now then, too, as to the great /capital/ trust in question whether it be or be not in this sense abdicated by a large majority of the whole body, and therefore by the whole body itself, habitually and constantly abdicated} Such being the disorder /state/, now, Sir, as to the remedy. Speaking of a corporation, the disorder consisting as above is this that[?] viz. that “the condition upon which it” (the ‘body politic’) “was incorporated has been ‘broken’”, “and thereupon the incorporation is” (i.e. has become) ‘void’ - “the regular course” (says Blackstone) “is to bring an information in the nature of a Writ of Quo Warranto, to inquire by what warrant the Members now exercise their corporate power, having forfeited it by such and such proceedings.”
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