7 May 1811

Influence

P.I

Ch.2. J.B.s Propositions

§.1. J.B.s Propositions

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5. On and over the Members of the House of Commons separately taken and thence collectively it is right and useful and constitutional that the King by means of such of his political servants as have seats in that House the King should possess and exercise the influence of understanding over understanding: viz. that influence and the utmost influence which by the device /relation/ of the strongest and most efficient talents that are any where to be found it may be physically speaking, in his power to exercise.

6. On and over the Members of the House of Commons, neither collectively nor therefore separately, is it right or useful or constitutional that either the King or his political servants or any of them should exercise or possess the influence of will on or over will to any amount or in any degree whatever.

7. Accordingly in relation to all such persons all /every such person of any/ such influence have any time[?] any existence, all such influence, whether it be in an encreasing, stationary, or diminishing state, ought not only /merely/ to be diminished, but absolutely to be defalcated: viz. in so far as it is by any means capable of being defalcated, saving such part of any as can not be defalcated consistently with the preservation of that influence of will on and over will which to the purpose of the business of the administrative department is {and ought to be} possessed and exercised by him on and over the several Members of the /that/ administrative department, as above.