9 Oct 1809

Parl y Reform

B. I. Necessity

Ch. Occasional inadequate

§.3. Burke advocates occasional

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Against every thing which can serve to continue the check upon misrule in any /the

only/ hands that have an interest in the prevention of it—against every thing which

can serve /effect of/ to keep the Members of House of Commons /Representatives of the

people/ in that state the keeping them in which is the very course he himself so

frequently recommends—in a word against short parliaments, and

exclusion of Court dependents from the right of voting, he

argues expressly in terms /a passage/ which will be considered /has been looked into/

in the course of these pages /the present work/. +

/According to his plan/ The power of corruption is it to according to his plan to

receive any the slightest check? Not it indeed: all that is to be done with it is the

vesting it in other hands: the exquisitely pure and able hands that he knows of:—and

whenever it were their fate to be called hence, the constitution /English liberties/,

like the vassals /slaves/ of a Tartar /Tartar chieftains/ were to be buried with them

in the same grave.