1818 Nov r 25

Parl Reform Bill

Reasons

'.1. Seats & Districts

'.2. Electors Who

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Question 8. By admission given to the votes of non-adult males would inconvenience in any and what shapes be produced?

Answer. In several shapes.

1. In the shape of increase given to expense, vexation and delay, as in the case of females /last mentioned/.

2. In the shape of inequality. In so far as the minds of the children remained subject to the influence of understanding on understanding, a /each/ man would have as many votes as he had children between the earliest age at which a child being capable of giving or was accordingly admitted to give a vote, and the earliest age at which it had come to emancipate itself from that influence. By secrecy of suffrage, non-adults would indeed as well as adults have been emancipated from the influence of will on will /seductive influence/: but by the influence of understanding on understanding a sufficient /very considerable/ number of votes would, in the case in question be placed at the command of a single individual: although /while/ no sufficient reason, if any, can it should seem be assigned, why any one instance of such pluralism should have place.