1818 March 28

Parl. Ref. Bill

Reasons

III. Electors Who

Reading Qualification

Reasons

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7. If by the radical and invariable constitution of human nature the great bulk of the people in ever large political community placed and fixed in such a state, as to be incapable of forming in relation to the universal interest, and their respective shares in it any conception more nearly approaching to an adequate one than that which in this country they possess at present, with what hope - to what purpose does he ever speak in Parliament? and by what considerations can he justify himself in the endeavour to place ultimately in their hands so large a proportion, not to say the whole of the process of government?