1818 Sept. 26

Parl Reform Bill

VII Discard

Reasons 3 o

'.2 Electors Who

Universality

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21 But by no possible or imaginable means could any such arrangement be carried into effect. Neither with the existence of government in any shape, nor with the existence of the human species for any length of time /sevendays together/ would it be compatible. 1. In respect of money &c /the matter of wealth/ as above, present equality effected for the moment /any one day/ would be incompatible with security for all future ones /moments/ /days/: by misconduct or accident or death, if /if on the first day/ any one member lost his portion, the next day equality could not have place, unless for the giving him a new share a fresh division were made. 2. In respect of power, absolute equality is /would not only be/ a contradiction incompatible with government, but the assertion of its existence would involve a contradiction in terms: if in every hand there were an equal share of power, there would be none at all in any hand: 3. in the instance of each member esteem and respect at the hands of other depends in a great degree /principally/ on his own conduct: and howsoever /although/ by certain arrangements + capable of being encreased and lessened by government, neither of the above effects can except in a limited degree be produced by the operation of any such cause.

These /The/ necessary deductions from absolute equality prescribed by The above exceptions /considerations/ excepted the conduct /interest/ of any determinate and separate portion of a community is adverse to the /[...?] of/ interest of the entire community, in so far as the effect or tendency of it is to lodge in its own hands any portion of the above objects of universal desire, in a quantity /proportion/ greater than that of the number of the members of the included body to the number of the Members of the entire body.

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