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1818 Dec. r 31
Parl. Reform Bill
Dialogue
Preliminary View
Evils and Remedies
Remedies
Miselection
Representatives situation
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Anti-Reformist. Providence /Foresight/ {I see} in plenty: I wish I could say /see/
as much for delicacy. Providence /Foresight/ - I mean as employed against annoyance
in a physical shape in the House. But your stock of remedies against Miselection, is
it quite /already/ exhausted, am I to understand it is exhausted?
Reformist. Not altogether. There are certain instruments force and fraud I mean by
which (as you /we/ have seen Non-Election and Null Election are capable of being
produced: by force and fraud, whether applied to the situation of Representative or
to that of Elector. By those same instruments so may Mis-election. By a lying story,
by confinement applied to the individual or by obstruction applied to the roads
/avenues/, the Electors in any number may be prevented from giving their votes,
proposed Members or persons who should have been proposed may be prevented from
receiving or doing what was /would have been/ necessary to the receiving a /in/
sufficient number of votes. Practices of this sort may be obviated partly by {such}
penal arrangements such as those by which /defence[?] or
provided against/ the same instruments to whatsoever other mischievous purposes they
are applied, partly as you will see by precautionary arrangements in the face of
which nothing of a penal character is visible.
[marginal insertion:] By any /In /Of/ any such/ of these enormities the effect may be
to put an exclusion upon some individual by whom the seat would otherwise have been
filled, and in comparison of whom the one by whom it comes in consequence to be
filled is unfit: and this being supposed, miselection is the effect.
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Title: [1819 Jan. y 10 Parl. Reform Bill]Description: 1819 Jan. y 10 Parl. Reform Bill Preliminary View Evils & Remedies II. Remedies Miselection II. through transgressions of law 1 37 Leget ut Clericus.[?] Anti-Reformist. Well now, suppose them all effective and adequate these remedies of yours for the prevention of Miselection through unfitness on the part of that law itself in that part of the law by which the qualification of proposed Members and Electors are respectively appointed /determined/ prescribed, let us now see what provision you make One cause of Miselection shall remain, I mean the misexecution or non-execution of the determinations /appointments/ so made. Under the provisions so made according to the plan chalked out by you, in the District of Freeborough, Francis Freeman is the proposed Member that ought to have been returned But by mal practice in some shape or other say force or fraud, not he but William Wrongham has been returned. What remedies does your plan provide against Miselection from such a cause? Reformist. The same that it provides against Non-election and Null Election. Such is the connection All those Election evils, they are, all of them, liable to be produced by the same set of causes, all of them capable of being prevented /obviated/ by the same remedies. Force, fraud, accident – to /under/ one or other of these heads may all the disastrous causes in question be found referable /reducible/. {Simplicity of arrangement despatch.} Care taken for the Exclusion of motives to delinquency – for the exclusion of the means of delinquency, for the notoriety of all the relevant facts – in this short list you have /these words will conduct you to/ the remedies
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Title: [1818 Dec. 30. Parl Reform Bill]Description: 1818 Dec. 30. Parl Reform Bill Dialogue Prelim Evils & Remedies Dialogue 3 II. Remedies Recommendatory Certificate 6 6 Anti-Reformist. Very well then. Open the doors of your House to the /your/ full width, and I will peer[?] in upon your swinish multitude, till all your principal Election evils Miselection, Non-Election and Null Election are poured[?] in upon you in a full tide. Reformist. Excuse me Not you indeed. Anti Reformist. How so? One short paper stops your hands: - my Recommendatory Certificate. No person can be susceptible /put in/ of receiving votes without a certificate declaring an opinion /in pursuance/ of his aptitude, and after being eventually willing to serve, signed by a certain limited number of persons: say half a dozen or a dozen. By these a deposit in money towards the expence of the Election must be made. Unrespectable men, in number sufficient to produce confusion would not be found thus to throw away their money: respectable men would not throw away their reputation by proposing a man known to be unrespectable.
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Title: [1818 Dec r. 30 Parl Reform Bill]Description: 1818 Dec r. 30 Parl Reform Bill Dialogue Prel Evils & Remedies Dial. 2. Remedies 2 2 Anti-Reformist. As you please. Come then, card in hand, I proceed to call over once more your evils, and under the head /on the occasion/ of each evil to call for such general conception as in your judgment may for the present be sufficient of the nature of the remedy or remedies which your scheme provides for it. 1. First then as to your Principal Election Evils: and amongst them those which apply more directly to the situation of representative: to wit 1. Miselection. 2. Non-Election and 3. Null Election: and in the first place Miselection: for that of itself will, I expect find you work enough. [marginal note:] 31 Dec r 1818. Postpone or discard what follows? Reformist. Indeed it will. But /Mean time/ in the first place before I present to you /bring to view/ any specific /particular/ remedy I must beg to remind you of my three leading words – my cabalistic words you may call them if you please universality, equality, annuality: virtual universality of suffrage, virtual equality of influence on the part of each such suffrage, and annuality of election, i.e. annual recurrence of the faculty of substituting to a less approved a more approved representative. In the next place {you must allow me to include} under the head of Miselection, you must allow me to include the election of ever so apt /good/ a representative, so long as by a different arrangement one still more apt might have been found /provided/.
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