1818 March 7 +

Parl. Reform Proposed H. of Commons Resolutions

Representatives

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13. That by the Representatives of the people, the sense of the people whose

Representatives they are can never be truly represented and conformed to, otherwise

than in so far as for their continuance in such their situation, they have been

rendered and remain dependent upon the wishes – the real and genuine wishes and

desires of such their constituents, as expressed by their suffrages, delivered as

above.

14. That to give to the dependence that perfection of which considered in itself and

without regard to any other object it would be susceptible, it would be necessary

that at all times it should be in the power of every such Electoral body as above to

remove its Representative; in the same manner as it is in the power of every

individual who has granted to another a power of Attorney, to revoke the same. { and

so in regard to Instructions} But forasmuch as in such a

state of things instead of deputing representatives to manage such their public

concerns the people would thus be in their own person continually occupied in the

management of those same concerns, whereby that time and labour would be occupied and

engrossed, without which the business of private life in respect of the provision of

the means of subsistence could not be carried on, hence it becomes necessary that

this same power of removal should not be called into exercise, otherwise than at

certain stated and more or less distant, periods.