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1822 Feb 7.

Codification Offer.

40

?.5. Admission Universal

Members Unapt

Reason 2. Operating in this field they operate under the influence of a cluster /swarm/ /confederacy/ of sinister interests: of interests /efficient causes of corruption /misrule//, against the disastrous /destructive/ effect of which in the occasion in question this is the only remedy which the nature of the case admitts of.

/Reason 2. Against the sinister influences, to which their situation stands exposed, the [?] /[...?]/ open mode is the most effectual preservation./

Let original draughts from all hands be not only permitted but invited to shew themselves the best possible chance is thus taken for the obtaining of one or more draughts in the framing of which the universal interest has been the only object pursued, in preference to all such particular and thence sinister interests as stand opposed to it. He by whom that object has with [...?] fidelity /adherence/ been pursued will at any rate be the least likely to shrink from the condition of accompanying it with the interwoven rationale: since in that additional /accompaniment/ he will behold the only chance his draught can have for overpowering /surmounting/ by force of reason the forces of any sinister interest with the conjunct prejudices which on this or that occasion he may find opposed to it: for /and/ in that rationale he will give a standard /[...?]/ /test/ by which all other draughts all draughts which are the produce of sinister interest in any shape may be tried: the fallaciousness of all fallacious reasons detected. A sinister interest is any interest that stands and acts in opposition to that of the greatest number. By no other means than by an opposition manifested by the greatest number can any effectual bar be opposed to any sinister arrangement which the sinister interest of the legislative body or a prevailing party in it may have dictated: by /in/ every useful /right/ arrangement with an apt part of the rationale for its support which the legislative body [?] under the guidance of any such sinister interest may have neglected /put in virtual [?]neglect/ an invitation will be given to the people to come forward and make their sentiment [?] known.