3 April 1818

Proposed Parliamentary Reform Resolutions

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I Universality

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For prediction /promotion/ of counter influence, extend election suffrage to all male

adults, possessed of intellectual aptitude proved by an unquestionable test.

or 2.

Universality + Reading and writing test

By Periodicals better appropriate information with prompt means of information, with

prompt means of expos g. men’s information respecting aptitude of

Candidates are | | now to the most learned readers than ever possessed by the most

learned of their ancestors by whom was transmitted to us that Constitution which

still is so much superior to all the d o.

or 3 +

Equality

Numbers of Representatives enlarged: not more than one for each place

or 4. +

Equality Election Districts.

For equality and | | of disorder I divide Britain & Ireland into 658

mathematically delineated districts for a standard of reference.

ar 5. +

Equality Election Districts

2. Having made a mass in which along with the mathematical division delineated the

Counties | |, Parishes, with quasi d

o., and each parishes with the number of inhabitants in

each, political | | being distinguished from mathematical by form and colour, divide

some of the mathematical | | into sub sections, and

consolidate others, till political sections are thus formed having each a number as

near to the average number as is consistent with local convenience.

ar 6.

Equality. Election Districts

Number of inhabitants of Ireland as those of Britain are. –

ar 7. +

Equality Election Districts

{Where the space admitts not the name of the Parish insert the number of inhabitants

with a figure of reference to the name in the margin.}

ar 8.

Equality. Election Districts.

Establish Demarcators for marking[?] out the Election districts, as above.

ar 8 continued

Equality

{For local convenience scruple not to allott to such of some Districts no more than

half the average number; to others as far as half as much again so as no partiality

personal or local be imputable.}

ar 9.

Equality /Universality/ Voters Qualification

For proof of | | afford every facility consistent with prevention of imposture:

certificate of a small number of inhabitants of the same district known by their

names on their doors who have all heard the man read passages not got by heart but

taken at random.

or 10 +

Equality /Universality/. Non-Nullity

Voters Qualifications

Against disorder and nullity from migration necessitate antecedent residence for a

determinate time in a known and registered house whe r. he the

Householder or not.

ar 11. +

Freedom Voting secret.

For securing freedom and thence security ags t. influence by which

it would be destroyed, mode of voting secret, by dropping a

card into a box out of sight of every body.

ar 12 +

Ordinary Election annual Making[?] /Ordering/ same &[?] day to every year.

Power to king to dissolve, and recall toties quoties. Voters to[?] some[?] votes

alone received[?].

25 April 1818

Memorandum

In p.4 of this fair Copy fill up the blanks destined for the expression of the amount

of the debt and the army