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(Every male person of full age)

Question 1. or Note By this provision, with the exception of all such persons as are hereby specially excluded, to wit persons of the female sex, non-adults of the male sex, persons unable to read so long as they continue so, Military men in certain cases, and as per persons who at the times in question are lawfully placed /kept/ in a state of confinement, every person is admitted to contribute by his suffrage to the Election of a proposed Member of the Commons House

Admission of every person, without any exception, would be in strictness of speech, admission of universal suffrage

Admission of every person, saving those exceptions is what may be termed admission of virtually universal suffrage.

It is said to be virtually universal for this reason: namely that in this way all interests would, it is supposed be as effectually provided for as they could be or are supposed to be by strictly universal suffrage. For the Reasons

{To require a qualification is to put an exclusion upon all persons not possessed of it.}

{Correspondent to exclusion is qualification.} /Qualification is exclusion in disguise./ To establish a qualification is to put an exclusion upon all persons not possessed of it.

In the here proposed Plan of Representation certain causes of exclusion say for shortness certain exclusions, are expressly /openly/ ordained. For /Of/ each of these exclusions the reasons will here be given.