1818 April 27 +

Parl. Reform Proposed Resolutions

Concluding Details

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ar 2. thus, forasmuch as, by the already extensive, and

indefinitely extendible, diffusion of periodically published and other discourses, on

all subjects in general, and on all political subjects in particular, whereby, in

relation to all such subjects, true information, and in case of error, prompt

correction of such error, may at all times with the utmost rapidity be

differentiated, - all {such} persons, {as are} possessed of that same primary and

preliminary art, are, in relation to the several points in question, possessed of

means of information far superior to all that were ever in the possession of those

our Ancestors, by whose appropriate intellectual aptitude as well as probity, in the

character of voters, that Constitution was established, by which, notwithstanding

those imperfections to which it is hereby endeavoured to apply a remedy, the

condition of the nation has at all times been, and even still is so advantageously

distinguished: and thus therefore the sufficiency of this test is, to the great

purpose here in view as unquestionable, as the fact of a man’s being in possession,

where he really is in possession, of the art and of the faculty by which this same

test is afforded, will, at all times, be uncontrovertible.