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To J. C. This is

not

Rudiment. Copy it. ad vercundum

3 Ch | | Authority worshipper

9

6 Relevance Cause?

Member = Emperor

Parallel between the lot of a Member of Parliament a that of a Emperor of Morocco.

1. Power without /equally pure form[?]/ obligation in the portion of the Emperor of Morocco not to speak of the Emperor of France. Power without obligation is the portion of the Member of the House of Commons: - not to speak of the House of Lords.

2. The power of the Emperor is a whole /an integer/ /an integral quantity/: - the power of the Member is but a part of a sinister whole: - in this lies all the difference.

3. An Emperor of Morocco may be as ignorant as he pleases: a borough-holding Member of Parliament may also be as ignorant as he pleases. No degree of ignorance renders it more difficult to a more than it would be otherwise. to become an Emperor of Morocco. Adequate borough property being in possession, No degree of ignorance renders it less easy to a man than it would be otherwise to become a Member of the House of Commons.

4 Birth gives a man his title to undivided despotism enjoyed by an Emperor of Morocco: birth gives a man his title to the fraction of despotic power enjoyed by a borough-holding Member of the House of Commons.

5. No fraud, no insincerity, no hypocrisy, no jargon is necessary, to enable a man to enjoy and defend the despotism enjoyed by an Emperor of Morocco. Perpetual fraud, perpetual insincerity, perpetual hypocrisy, a perpetual flow of jargon is necessary to enable the[?] man to enjoy and defend the [...?] scrap of fractional despotism enjoyed by a Member of the House of Commons

6. By ascending /his mounting/ and maintaining himself on his throne, no acknowledged principle is violated by an Emperor of Morocco. By maintaining himself in his seat the most solemnly acknowledged as well as most vital of public principles is perpetually violated by a borough-holding Member of the House of Commons.