1 Jan y 1810

Parl y Reform

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Speaker exchange[?]

Ch.14. Corruption II. Electors

'.1. Leading principles

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Ch.14. 2. Corruption &c - its mischievousness in the case of an Elector.

'.1. Leading principles.

Of influence exercised on the one part, be it influence of understanding on understanding, be it influence of will on will - be it of the coercive kind, be it of the alluring /inviting/ kind - be it legitimate, be it sinister and illegitimate - in so far as it is efficient, the result, on the other part, is obsequiousness.

Every thing - as hath above been so fully explained - every thing depends upon obsequiousness: upon the existence or non-existence of undue obsequiousness, as towards the corruptor general or any casual corruptor, on behalf of the trustee and agent or rather him who should be /being in fact the trustee of right ought to be/ the agent of the people.

A breach of trust of this sort does it never take place? None except what /such/ difference as may happen to be produced in respect of the talents and intellectual endowments and talents of the representative by a competent or incompetent set of Electors, no matter who the Electors are nor wheth[?] corrupted or in any and what degree corrupted.

If in any instance a representative who is either absolutely unfit for the trust or less fit than some other that might have been obtained for it happens to be placed in it, and the substitution has not on the part of the Electors any error or judgment for the cause, what it must have had for its cause is resolvable into a manifestation of undue[?] obsequiousness on the part of the number requisite to produce the/ this/ undesirable effect /result/.