[clxvii. 57]

1821 March 22

Rid Yourselves

Anti Constitutional Evil

1 Vitiating Cortes Constitution

Of this composition - vitiating evil the /evil/ /magnitude[?]/ effect will of course when expressed in a general way be in the proportion of the members in the two divisions: it will be as the number of the Members not chosen or removable by you is to the number of the Members chosen and removable by you.

The ratio /effect/ however will not have any such exact regularity as the expression - a mathematical one indicates. For among small numbers several /some/ might be found by the addition of which no evil would be produced: namely any such numbers as on each occasion could to a certainty find itself exceeded and thence out-voted.

Thus it is that by the numbers repectively sent by the several peninsular provinces situated in the peninsular no evil is produced: for supposing this or that province on this or that occasion to have a separate interest opposite to that of all the other provinces, this separate interest being on each occasion sure to find itself overpowered by the remainder /other part/ of the universal interest would on every occasion be innoxious.