[clxvii. 62]

1821 March 21

Rid Yourselves

'.6. Anti Constitutional Evil

1. Foreigners in Cortes

'. By the share given to Ultramarians in the representation real injury is done to the really Spanish people Ultramarian representation hurts Spain.

Spaniards!

You have seen how real and how heavy is the injury done by this claim to the people of Ultramaria: how heavy, and thence and therefore how intolerable to them: how intolerable to them, and thence and therefore how ruinous to you if you suffer your Representatives to persist in so hopeless an enterprise as that of forcing their submission to it how ruinous to yourselves. You have seen that, /A moment's patience, and you shall see,/ against this injury to them, no real security is afforded by the share given to them in the Representation - in the composition of the Cortes, by which in conjunction with the King, the Kings Ministers, and the Council of State, your affairs are managed.

But while to them that share in the composition of your supreme legislative assembly affords no security no advantage in any shape, to you it can not fail to work the most serious injury. Applied to your case it is a violation of the first /fundamental/ principle of the Constitution:- a weakening of the principal security provided/ /afforded/ by it: that of not being taxed or in other respects legislated upon but by Representatives /Agents/ chosen by yourselves.