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Parl. Reform Bill

Concluding Resolutions

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10. That for the more effectually securing the unity of will and

opinion as between the people and their Representatives, in such sort that all such

measures of government, as shall from time to time be presented by the

Representatives of the people to the throne, shall, at all times, for the continual

accomplishment of the purpose so graciously and repeatedly declared by his present

Majesty as well as his royal progenitors and predecessors, be in strict conformity to

the sence – the real sence – of the people for the time being, and accordingly in

pursuance of that same end, for the enabling the people in each Election District, in

the most prompt and effectual manner to repair the misfortune of any improper choice,

a fresh Election of the Members of this House ought to take place once a year at the

best: saving to the Crown its prerogative of dissolving Parliament at any time, and

thereupon, after the interval necessary for sufficient notice, summoning a fresh

Parliament.