1818 July 5 + '.2

Parl. Ref. Bill

Reasons

'.2 Electors Who

Universality

People after them rulers

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howl[?] upon paper wild and visionary anarchy and destruction of property.

If in this case appropriate aptitude be admitted in the character of an efficient cause of title.

If in regard to this right /the franchise here in question/ the efficient cause of title be considered as constituted by /consisting/ in the possession of a certain degree of appropriate aptitude - of appropriate aptitude caused /taken/ in all its three point taken together, and any incurable deficiency in respect of any one of them as a sufficient cause for exclusion, the title of the lowest /least opulent/ classes to admission will be found /seen/ to stand upon much firmer ground than that of the highest /most opulent/: in respect of exclusion in either case there were any well-grounded plea in favour /support/ of it, the case of most opulent /highest/ is that in which it would be seen to stand upon much firmer /stronger/ ground than in the case of the lowest.

Of the three elements of appropriate aptitude viz. appropriate probity, appropriate intellectual aptitude, and appropriate active talent + it is the first that is beyond comparison the most important. Why? even because if this be wanting /if in this there be a deficiency/ if in the breast in question this primary quality /element/ be wanting, the result is that by any abundance of the two other elements in the same subject, the mischief so far from being compensated and lessened, is encreased.

+  Observe in a note that against this nomenclature no direct objection has ever been [...?]: only indirect accusations about style &c.