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1821 June 19 Constitut. Code First Lines

Note the check to Geo. 1 & 2. by the Pretender's party

In defence if the system of misrule as at present carried on,
a plea in bar against Reform, and a plea that seems
to be most generally employed and relied on, is - that the system
that has place now at present pursued and acted upon, is the same as that by which
all the good effects that have ever been experienced, have been produced:
the same on which all the praises that have ever been
bestowed upon it by foreign nations as well as its own have been
bestowed.

If things themselves are to be considered, and not mere
words — the things themselves and not merely the words employed they are
called by in speaking of them, nothing can be further from the truth.
The assertion, if it be any thing to the purpose, amounts to this:
viz. that to the power exercised by the ruling one in conjunction
with the sub-ruling few over the subject many, there exists at
present checks and securities against abuse either the same as or
not less effectual than, any which ever had place at any former
point of time.

This will be found compleatly false and groundless
whether the power of aggression on the part of the one and the few many
be considered or the power of self-defence on the part of
the many.

On the part of the rulers the power of aggression may be distinguished is either into
the power of violence and the power of corruption: on the part
of the subject-many people of self-defence to be distinguished into
that which they exercise by their Representatives, meaning always
their actual deputies and delegates freely chosen by them,
and that which they exercise by themselves.

First, as to the power of aggression by violence. It contests
in, and in its amount is proportioned to, the standing force of a military
nature, under the absolute command of the ruling one.
Of this force there are two branches: the land force and the sea
force. For the period of comparison take, in the first place, the year
1760 1753 being the fifth year of the death of George the Second peace- the fifth
year after the war that terminated ceased in the peace of 1748.
1. Army

Identifier: | JB/036/058/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 36.
Date_1	1821-06-19	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	036	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	058	Info in main headings field	constitut. code first lines england
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks
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