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1819 Dec.
Benthams Radical
Prelim
II. Necessity
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Radical Reform would only dismiss from their seats a number of Members some of whom would lose them, otherwise Representative Democracy without Monarchy and Aristocracy would fill the three Nations with bitterness.
The Brown[?] Report looks at his[?] expedition
Majority[?]
Look for any better? No expectation can be more perfectly groundless.
[unnumbered sheet, formerly pinned to 111-246]
[Partly in copyist’s hand]
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§.12. Vacancies how filled
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But in those things such as they were were done by other people, in those things is their (the Whigs) great trust. As a /of a/ Torey[?], the trust is in the power[?] and rulers: these rulers thus removed[?] […?] and sinister[?] what he who[?] trusts it will be most […?] & […?] who […?] […?] wise[?] through the […?] […?]. Such is their religion: that religion which if they are to be believed would not subsist without fine and imprisonment for its support.
{ Art 6. Genius & […?] To prevent surprize, and undue advantage in favour of any person whom any resigning Member may be desirous of having as his Successor, Neque in nostru[?] uno[?] is the motto of the Whigs it is intimated and expected that his determination to resign shall as soon as formed, be made public as above.
Art. 7. When a vacancy is produced by death, if the General Election day is so near that, regard being had to the distance of the Election District from the House between the earliest day on which a Member chosen to fill the Vacancy, could take his Seat, and the day of meeting of the ensuing Parliament the number of days intervening can not be greater than thirty the Member chosen to fill the Vacancy shall, without any fresh Election, be the Member for that District in the ensuing Parliament. N.B. The object here is to save the expence and idleness of an Election. Proportioned to the Magnitude of this compound Mischief will be the sacrifice which it will be worth while to make of the principle of Impermanence. In case of resignations it seems too much to make any such sacrifice. For in this way an extreme degree of Permanence might become an object of private favour, or even of sale. In both cases the more simple and perhaps most eligible course might be the leaving the seat vacant.
Of whatever is English and Scotch taken together you can say whatever you please: you call it British. Of what is English Scotch and Irish taken together you can not say any thing. Of English and Scotch interests taken together you can say what you think with sense then: of English Scotch and Irish interests taken together you can not speak. That language should have no influence on conduct in this case /instance/ is not possible: in what instance is not conduct almost enclosed by language?
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