1818 Sept. 29.

Parl. Reform Bill

VII or VIII

Reasons 3 o

'.2. Electors Who

Universality

1. Probity

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But, under /on/ the here proposed system /plan/ of virtually universal suffrage no elector has any possible means of giving effect to this same propensity: he has no possible means of promoting in any case his self-regarding interest separately considered, and to the sacrifice or prejudice of the interest of any other individual or of that of the whole community: he has not any possible means of preventing self regarding interest in any shape other than that of his own share in the aggregate the universal interest.

37. This then, with a degree of effect or at least of promise proportioned to that of his appropriate intellectual aptitude, is the interest and the only interest which in the exercise of the right in question it will be to his study and endeavour to promote.

37. Thus then /under/ Monarchy and Aristocracy this predominance of personal /self-regarding/ over universal interest, and the consequently constant sacrifice of the universal to the particular interest, is altogether certain and impreventible: under Representative Democracy, in the situation of Representative, preventible; in the situation of Elector, impossible: that is to say the sacrifice of the universal interest notwithstanding the predominance of the self-regarding /personal/ interest.