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1821 March 26
Rid Yourselves

§. 6. Anti Constitutional Evils
I. Foreigners in Cortes

1.
Anti-constitutional
evils from the claim.
1. Vitiating the Representation
by Members not
deputed.
2. Adding to corruptive
influence.
3. Doubling the time
during which Members
are irremovable.
4. Substracting from the
otherwise insufficient time
for performance of Cortes
duties.

2.
Great the financial evil:
still greater the mass
of anti-constitutional.

3.
I. Effect of the deterioration
of the composition
of the Cortes – to Members
chosen and removable
by Spaniards, addition of
others neither chosen nor
removable by do.

4.
On all questions concerning
quantum of contribution,
interests compleatly
opposite: unity of interest,
none, except as to
separation.

5.
True, in Corte's language
name the same: but
names can neither change
interests, nor lessen their
force. Call Moroccans
Algerine Spaniards,
would they be so?

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§. 6. Anti Constitutional Evils
I. Foreigners in Cortes

6.
Magnitude of this evil,
in appearance as number
to number. Not exactly
so in effect: of numbers
constantly outvoted,
the effect is nothing: except
as to delay and
appeal to public opinion.

7.
Thus in Spain by the
several particular interests
of particular provinces
or districts, no evil
is produced: they being
all melted down into the
universal interest.

8.
Not so in the case of Ultramaria.
Sooner or later,
the effect of this mixture
would be to number Spanish
by Ultramarian
Members: to overpower
the Spanish by the Ultramarian
interest:
and thus to bring upon
you the injury which
the supporters of the
claim labour to inflict
on Ultramarians.
Per Art Members seen
to be in proportion to inhabitants:
as 1. to 70,000:
in Ultramaria as in
Spain.
In Spain, say 12,000,000:
in Ultramaria, more.

8(a.)
Numbers in Ultramaria
by different accounts.

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§. 6. Anti Constitutional Evils
I. Foreigners in Cortes

9.
In Ultramaria, in 300
years, from a few hundreds
the numbers have
encreased to these 12
millions: in the same
time, in Spain little or
no encrease.

10.
True, from the Spanish
population in Ultramaria,
The Aboriginals
are to be deducted.
But per contra place
the effect of the substitution
of liberal to the all-oppressing
and compressing
despotism.

11.
Objector. According to
you, in the Ultramarian
Members the same
corruptive influence will
be exercised by the Executive
Government in Spain
as in the Spanish.
Answer. Yes. But by
this the condition of Spanish
subject-many
will not be bettered. Not
more adverse to their
interest would the Ultramarian
be than
their corruptive influence.

Identifier: | JB/008/081/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 8.
Date_1	1821-03-26	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-11
Box	008	Main Headings	rid yourselves of ultramaria
Folio number	081	Info in main headings field	rid yourselves
Image	001	Titles	anti constitutional evil / foreigners in cortes
Category	marginal summary sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d1 / e1
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks	j whatman 1819
Marginals		Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public		ID Number	3185
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