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[clxvii. 258]
1821 March 20
Rid Yourselves
' Representation no security
To purchase this security, they would have to submitt to be governed on all points this not excepted, by a body of men of whom the majority at least would be strangers to them, /actuated by interests opposite to theirs, and/ acting at various distances, but the least of them of itself an effectual bar to good government acting in a word under those insuperable disadvantages some of which have already been submitted to your view.
Thus, to purchase an alledged benefit of no value, they would have to pay an immense price: the burthen of the price would fall in their view and be felt by them: the beneficialness of the alledged benefit, not being real would not be perceptible.
Under those disadvantages supposing even that the majority of the body of the national representatives sitting in Spain was /were/ composed of men sent by free fair and full election from Ultramaria sent from Ultramaria by universality, secresy, equality and annuality or biannuality of suffrage, even this state of things would not under the Constitution as it stands constitute in favour of to the Ultramarians any adequate or effectual security against misrule.
1. In the first place neither by this nor any other political arrangement could the the irremovable and inflexible physical bar opposed by distance to good government be overcome.
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Title: [[clxvii. 265] 1821 March 20]Description: [clxvii. 265] 1821 March 20 Rid Yourselves '. Representation no security Such /This/ then is the state of things, in which alone any security that can be alledged /produced/ is an adequate security either /in favour/ for the Ultramarians against misrule under the Constitution would if it had place be to be found. An arrangement proposed in the character of a security to the Ultramarians against any measure that can be /liable to be/ devised by the Constituted authorities in Spain sitting in the Peninsular /Spain/ and really chosen by the inhabitants /population/ of Spain for the sacrifice of the interests of the /population of/ Ultramaria. And the men, at whose hands and by /from/ the exercise of whose power this security is expected /to be looked for/ who are they? Men chosen by those to whom the security is to be afforded? No: /on the contrary/ but men the only men against whom the security is looked for: men who are respectively indebted for this their situation are indebted - not to those whose Representatives and even whose Deputies they are stiled and profess to be, but [...?] it is not known who, of this or that one of your Rulers - of this or that one of the men in whose enterprizes whatever danger there is will have its source as if in a war the garrison were appointed by a beseinging enemy: or, if pardon the allusion /pardon the allusion/ - it is of situations that I speak not of personal characters with respect be it spoken, as if in a town the watchmen were to be appointed by the thieves.
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