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1818 Dec. 24. Parl. Reform Bill
1818 Dec. 24.

Parl. Reform Bill

Dialogue II

Election Evils.

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Anti-Reformist. The old story, { good[?] M r

Lack-learning}, always snarling at your too learned brethren. Sadly sower in your

eyes the grapes that adorn /shroud/ /shroud their clusters/ over the Courts of

Chancery and King’s Bench. Come, now for such of your characteristic or appropriate

Election evils as you call collateral ones.

Well but now for those appropriate Election Evils which apply to the situation of

Representative no otherwise than by apply /in as far/ as they apply to the situation

of Elector

Reformist. These I divide in the first place into such as are principal, and such as

are not principal, but /being/ only collateral.

Anti-Reformist. What? In the clouds again?

Reformist. Patience; one stop /dip/ more and you will feel ground. The principal

evils in question – those which I denominate principal,

consist in or if you please are caused by either non-admission or admission or

non-admission: admission given to voters and votes that ought not to have been

admitted, non admission or in one word exclusion applied to voters and votes that

ought to have been admitted.

In both cases a distinction that requires to be taken is that between the evil that

affects the public alone, and the evil which affects individuals
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