22 Aug 1809

Parl y Reform B Modus obstruendi[?]

Ch.1. Applications to whom

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B.IX. Course proper to be taken for the accomplishment of Parliamentary Reform.

Ch.1.

On the part of this and that portion of the people an opinion being formed that a reform in and of parliament is to such a degree as to be termed necessary a desirable measure - and a determination formed accordingly to take such legal and constitutional courses as shall appear /present themselves/ as bidding fairest for the accomplishment of the /so important an/ object, what are their /is that/ proposed /most suitable/ and most competent course?

The will of the persons in question must in some way or other be expressed to those authorities from which alone consistently[?] with the established /existing/ constitution relief can come.

The constituent parts /branches/ of the supreme body are the King, the House of Lords and House of Commons.

To the House of Lords no address /petition/ /application/ at any rate in the first instance can with any consistency on such an occasion be addressed.

It is only for the purpose of laying it out of the case that of this assembly any mention is on the present occasion made /made on an occasion such as the present/. In respect of /relation to/ the mode of /course to be taken for/ composing the House combining the representatives of the body of the people these hereditary members of that other Assembly the numbers of which sit in their own right would be as far from thinking /wishing/ to interfere in the composition of the House as the other House would be from enduring any such interference.