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1818 July 14

Parl Ref Bill

Reasons

Mode of Voting

Voting Secret why

Canvassing

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But without need of prohibitive law under the proposed mode of Election this practice with all the abominations involved in it, would of itself cease seems altogether probable.

Whether it would or not, to the taking it for the subject of a prohibitory regulation what would be the objection? Where would be the inconvenience.

In the stationary mode, On the part of proposed Members in every polling District /of the Election District/ but one it would of necessity cease. In no more than one of those Districts could he be on one and the same day to any such purpose.

Turn here too to the American United States. In no one of them has any such self abasement place as a self exposure on a Hustings In no one of them has the itinerant mode place on the person of the candidate himself.

In some of them only has it place in the persons of his friends.