27 Dec r 1816

Necessity Cat

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Question 6 Is not that admiration well-grounded?

A. It is well grounded in so far as the share which the people at large possess in appearance is in reality possessed by them: it is ill grounded in so far as the share which in appearance is possessed by them is in reality not possessed by them.

Question 7 In what consists the appearance of the share which they have in appearance?

A. In this: viz. that the supreme power of government can not be exercised but with the concurrence in each instance of the majority of the Assembly: the House of Commons, the Members of which are all of them spoken of as /by the common name appellation/ the Representatives of the people, and who are some of them in fact chosen each of them by considerable numbers of the people.

Question 8 How is it that any share which in appearance {not name} is possessed by the people is not possessed by them in reality.

{A. It is possessed in reality no further than in as far as the persons stiled their representatives have the same interest with the universal interest, not predominated over by but predominant over every interest adverse to that universal interest, and in particular over every adverse interest capable of being created by the influence of the separate and sinister interest of the Monarch.}

A. It is possessed in reality only on the supposition that and in so far as the conduct of the representatives of the people is determined by the will of their constituents.

 For illustration give the case of the Agent of an individual.