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1818 July 23

Parl Ref Bill

Reasons

II. Electors who

Universality

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In the Introduction to the Plan of Parliamentary Reform a sort of eventual prediction was hazarded that in the case of radical reform, and that carried even to the length of universal suffrage, the class of men, out of which Representatives will be chosen will not be any class which to the antireformists need be or even actually is, as such, an object of apprehension. In support of this prediction the Authority there appealed to, was that of experience: uniform and notorious experience. Men already distinguished by wealth, by power by rank by reputation: such are the men out of whom (it it there said) the choice has ever hitherto been made: such therefore are the men out of whom it would /will/ continue to be made. In addition to this intimation was at the same time given of a class of men in whom howsoever the objects of esteem in other respects those brilliant endowments are not any of them to be found. For illustration an Instance was given of a nomination which being that of a Man belonging to the medical profession was on that account even by those to whom he was on other accounts an object of love and respect, put aside as ridiculous.