19 June 1811

Abdication

disfranchisement

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What follows? Answer /Why/, that, if for a single /disorder manifested no otherwise than by a single/ act of delinquence, and for no other purpose than that of giving encreased freedom to the mode of elections, and admitting a greater number of persons to a /the/ share in the parliamentary election franchise, this a remedy of this sort, including the hardship and suffering that are inseparable from it may not only be applied without injustice, but, for the common benefit of the people, was properly and laudable imposed /applied/, much more may this same remedy, with its hardship, be it what it may, be imposed /applied/ for as a cure for a habit, productive of constantly repeated acts of corruption, constituting, an unbroken course or chain of acts of corruption committed - not by influence not merely in that situation the prize[?] of which consists in nothing more than the faculty of contributing to the determination of those by whom the efficient power of the state shall be exercised, but by men in the situation in which that same efficient power is exercised or committed by them, and that in numbers generally sufficient to turn the scale and command the act of the whole body in manner as abovementioned.