8 Oct r 1809 +

Parl y Reform

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Ch. Occasional inadequate[?]

Ch. 16. The casual interposition of the people is not sufficient.

§. 1. Sole and rare effect—change of administration—how produced.

On the part of the people at large interposition in regard to the conduct of public

affairs, may (it has been observed) and actually does, occasionally take place. This

/In this faculty of occasional/ interposition some have seen or pretended to see at

the same time a sufficient counterbalance to the influence of the King in and over

the House of Commons, a sufficient security against arbitrary power, a conclusive

evidence that the people possess /are in the actual possession and exercise an

efficient/ influence over the conduct of public affairs: which influence it is

contended is as much as they ought to have—in other words, as much as it is for their

own advantage that they should have.