1818 Sept. 25.

Parl. Reform Bill

VI.

Reasons 3 o.

'.2 Electors Who

Universality

VI. Aptitude is comparative

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V.1

15 On the occasion here in question, in the situation of Elector in the consideration of appropriate aptitude the question being in what hands the power in question shall be lodged must be included - not only absolute aptitude, that is to say aptitude with reference to {the accomplishment of} the above {great and universal} end, but moreover comparative aptitude, aptitude with relation /reference/ to any and every other set of hands in which the power in question might by possibility be lodged: in one word any rival set of hands.

V.2.

16. Members of any other /foreign/ community out of the question - these rival hands will /either/ be the hands either of a Monarch, those of an Aristocratical body, or of a Democratical body in any degree less extensive than the body in whose hands it would be lodged by /under/ the here proposed system of virtually universal suffrage.