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1824 April 29 Constitut. Code Election Code Ch VI. Legislator
Written as reading Mill's article Government as reprinted
from Supplement to Encyclopaedia Britannica. 8 v p. 24J.B. versus Mill.
After the practice the object of which is to place all females under
the absolute dependence of all males comes ...
Exclusion of all under 25, 30, or even 40 years of age
Reasons for the exclusion are
Reasons against it
1. Youth is the sense of virtue. Thus it diminishes moral aptitude.
☞ Touch upon this point afterwards.
2. Youth is the sense of activity. Thus it diminishes active intellectual aptitude
3. Debarring youth of all hope of a participation of power in
this shape, it deprives them each proportionally of the
inducement to engage in any course of study in the view
of fitting them for that situation. It thus diminishes intellectual
aptitude.
4. There is a tendency to document appropriate aptitude in every one of its shapes.
No attempted to be drawn one age is proposed
at which, for any special reason, the line shall be drawn
between those who are excluded and those who are
admitted. Some say 25, some 30, this says 40:
some one else may say 50.: the age of Voters are
whatever it was might be preferred by some: and here
would be the shadow if not a reason the shadow of one.
For forty the time at which a person is to be admitted
to the management of his own private concerns, a time
could not fail to be drawn in the law of any country
At these special reason to the contrary, this
then should be the time by which admissibility into official
situations should be determined
Now there is for admitting into the situations in
question persons at an age certain age those that at which
they are admitted to the management of their own private
concerns there exists one reason, and that those as it should
seem, either of them of itself is conclusive. One is that in the situation
in question, the power is but fractional: the no individual
not being capable of himself to give exercise to it in any admission:
in one shape can the functionary do mischief without
having a majority of the whole number to join with him in it,
2. The other is – that by as with this same fraction of a power he must
be without having been the object of choice to the majority of a
of the free voters, has in favor of a man
of the age in question, what
but the opinion of extraordinary
aptitude should be
expected of meeting such
a multitude of voters?
Those to whom the individual is known, either from observation or at least report, say he is more apt than any other person. This author of this pamphlets Our exclusionist, to whom the individual
is altogether unknown to insist upon
it that without any evil result, he may be set aside on the
ground of his being utterly unapt,
which is most likely to be in the right.
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