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1823. March 16
7. Admitting the comparative inaptitude of the functionary
with reference to the legislative and executive functions no causes
of inaptitude on their part applies to the exercise of a share
in the constitutive function power: in this case no demand forming
appropriate active aptitude, it has been seen, has place. As easily
can a female give a pin of to be put into a box as male
as easily take receive advice as to the disposal of it, as
a male as his father has had, brother, or son.
8. The custom by which the prepossession has been produced
is a custom that had its rise in a state of society altogether
opposite in this respect to the present. The power being
necessarily in the hands of the male sex the pen followed
it. The Males were free to go every time. Females find full
occupation at home and could scarce seldom can consistently with
safety have it pass to any considerable distance for it.
9. From This custom has ever been departed from in the case
where the power to is of stands at the highest grade. In countries in
which this sex is not admitted to the then in the
constitutive power it is admitted to the whole of the Executive
coupled with a large the largest there are dozen of in the Regulations, and that without
any constitutive power above it. England
ground by female Monarchs Russia four lines Austria and
Portugal are ; whereof within these hundred or two years six
Swden France though not one by a Monarch whose
reign continued during life, several times by a Monarch whose
reign under the name of a for a long course of
years.
10. England gives the example of a case in which, in the
choice of a legis sublegislature of 24 Members governing with
absolute in conjunction with subordination to the supreme
legislature sixty matters of subjects at the of for this to
six males , females have an equal share with males.
But while are are strained out, are swallowed.
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