1818. Nov 14

Parl Reform Bill

Reasons

'.2. Electors who

Universality

Kingship unjustifiable

1

Grounded on this view of human nature the system of Parliamentary Representation and of government included under it is grounded on a view of human nature as it is - on a foundation of incontestable truth.

The foundation on which every vindication of the system of government as at present carried on /considered in its present state/ is grounded, is a foundation composed of fiction - that is of notorious falshood and this or that other[?] product of the imagination, this or that /one or other of two/ metaphor /figure/ or figure of speech, both of them inconsistent with that same fiction.

The fiction as a supposed matter of fact, the assertion of which stands in direct contradiction[?] to the abovementioned incontestable truth: to wit on the part of the person whoever he be, who at the time in question whatever it be occupies the situation of Kings in the state of mind different from that of any other human being, and composed of appropriate aptitude in every element of it, and more particularly that of the appropriate probity, in which the aggregate of appropriate aptitude is altogether dependent in its two other branches.