1818 Apr. 8

Parl. Reform Bill

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Reasons

'.II Electors Who

Vote-conferring Qualification

2. Intellectuality

Peoples sufficiency

Features of Misrule intelligible

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 Go on to speak of the encrease.

[...?] by high-terms[?] of misrule [...?] Coke &c

Thus much for the possession of the power under the existing system.

As to those who would be so under the here proposed system, whatsoever portion of intellectual aptitude they at /were at/ any time possessed /in their possession, the whole of it would as above, in virtue of the appropriate probity, which is among the inherent attributes of this class, be applied the whole of it to the advancement of that which is in their eyes the universal interest.

To apply to /infuse into/ their minds such a portion of intellectual aptitude as would be sufficient to engage them to vote in conformity to the universal interest would not be difficult: while to infuse into the minds of the existing voters any such portions of intellectual aptitude as should be productive of that effect would be plainly impossible.

Against the receptions of the necessary instruction {In the minds of the existing voters} sinister interest and interest begotten prejudices would in the minds of the existing voters oppose an insuperable bar while in the minds of the proposed voters neither obstacle would have place.