1819 Sept. 22

Parl. Reform Bill

Reasons ult o

§.2 Electors Who

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The only cause /sort of cause/ which the nature of the case admitts of is an /the/ historical one. It is because it has been all along what it is that the power exercised by the Lords is what it is: not because independently of usage and the associations and attachments produced by it, {that is independently of its having till now been what it is,} it would be conducive to the universal happiness – that it should be what it is but merely because such having been and being still the usage, men in general take for granted that the effects of it are of a beneficient nature

It is because it has all along been what it is that in like manner the power exercised by the Monarch is what it is.

{It is beyond the power of man /human reason/ to say,}Independently of usage and the associations and attachments and expectations produced by it, it is beyond the power of human reason /man/ to say in what way the office of Monarch with the power attached to it, is subservient to the universal interest /happiness/ to point out any mode in which any sort of occasion on which it is or can be so

Independently of usage, and the associations and attachments produced by it, it is beyond the power of human reason to say in what way the Office of Member of the House of Lords with the power attached to it is subservient to the universal interest: to point out any mode in which any sort of occasion on which it is or can be so.