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1818 July 30

Parl. Reform Bill

Reasons

II. Electors who

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Property bad qualification

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and that, unless the quantity required be so small the supposed security compleatly nugatory, that no more than a very small part of this whole number can ever be in possession of it is altogether certain.

Apply this argument to the case of Householdership though quantities may be more or less different, the conclusion will be the same.

So likewise in the case of qualification by payment of taxes: meaning always direct Taxes without which nothing is meant. If this qualification does not exactly coincide with that of Householdership the operation of it will be to give a still further extension to the operation of a cause, by which the content of the right is narrowed. Such will be the effect in so far as they are persons, who, though they are Householders pay nothing to the direct Taxes.