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1822 Nov. 4 Tripoli. Securities against
1822 Nov. 4

Tripoli. Securities against Misrule

Preliminary Explanations

?.2. Remedy. Publicity

1. Subjects

Note that to the simplify the conception, the direction taken by the suffrages in question is on this occasion supposed to be in the instance of every one of them the same. But as by the supposition the subject of these suffrages is in every instance some act of oppression, exercised by the Sovereign on individuals, there is nothing in this supposition in any considerable degree forced and likely to be wide of the truth /that seems likely to be in any very considerable degree wide of the truth./
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    This influence with its several possible degrees it may seem may be laid out of

    the account altogether, for of the persons on whom by possibility it is capable

    of being exercised, the only persons here in question are the Members of the

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    the Public Opinion Tribunal belonging to it. Thus accordingly when considered in

    a general point of view for the most part does the matter stand. One part

    however there remains in relation to which the sort of influence in question is

    capable of having a distinct operation. The suffrages suppose of all the members

    of this tribunal take the same direction: they being all of them pronounced in

    condemnation of the oppressive act in question. Thus far as between suffrage and

    suffrage it makes no difference which was the result of a self-formed opinion

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    the mind in question by that of some other member exercised whether on will or

    on understanding, or on both together. But, though, by the supposition the

    direction taken by /in which/ the suffrages /act/ is the same, and the ultimate

    number of them, by what cause so ever produced, is the number in question, yet

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    disposed to act in conformity to those same suffrages may be to any amount

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    Newspapers suppose two: taking different sides of the question in each case: one

    suppose the side of the suffering people; the other the side of the /an

    oppressing/ Sovereign and his misrule: Here the case is rendered more

    complicated; but the nature of it. Motions the tenor of them in every instance

    visible and permanent: outward suffrages, expressed or not expressed i.e. with

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    these suffrages some are on the side of one of the motions, others on that of

    the other.

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    and books - works small and great may be written in any number, each of them of

    any bulk in use. But by no one of them is any regular cognizance taken of the

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    thing here in question - a Newspaper.