1818. Nov r 14.

Parl Reform Bill

Reasons

'.2. Electors who

Universality

Kingship unjustifiable

2

1. Fundamental fiction /function[?]/. In the King is the perfection of appropriate aptitude for government: of appropriate aptitude in all its three branches.

1. In particular appropriate probity.

The conduct of the King like any other human being is determined by his interest, that is by the view which on each occasion he takes of that same interest.

But his interest is on every occasion the same with that of his people: therefore in so far as the view he takes of his own interest his correct his conduct will on every occasion be determined by the interest of the people, to[?] that which is in the highest degree conducive to the advancement of this same interest.

To this statement there are two objections

1. That the matter of fact asserted by it is notoriously untrue: that the reverse of it is what is true

2. That if it were the conclusion afforded by it, would be not in favour of the existing government in its existing state, but in favour of a compleat and undisguised despotism.