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1819 Apr. 4.
To Erskine

III. Whig demerits
Fallacies
1 Glorious Revolution

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They would proceed to give us to understand assure us that though when
our ancestors at that period, were well aware of the full right
of the people, to have resettled the whole frame of their Constitution
", it were "they were wise enough" — and it may be the result
of their wisdom — to leave every thing untouched, which in
principle and effect had not failed, and to provide only
for the emergency of a vacant, or forfeited throne, by adhering
as closely to antient inheritance as the security
of the Constitution would admitt." Of their wisdom, yes:
for of that sort of word wisdom which by well which men
have been said to be wise in their own generation — the existence of this
sort of wisdom there can be no doubt in the instance situation of
those our wise ancestors, than in that of their no less wise
successors.

Proceeding to insinuate and steal in misrepresentation
upon misrepresentation — delusion upon delusion, they would
proceed to assure us that "An alledged defect in this great
work, so often in the mouths of Revolution, the sober-minded
Whigs of England consider as decisively characteristic
of its wisdom. "The people" (they would continue) the
people at large were not called upon to act for themselves
or of the whole forms of Government the antient Government
had been dissolved; but writs" (they would say) were
sent to the Convention Parliament to supply the single defect
which (says Your Lordship thus in Italics) had
taken place"

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Date_1	1819-04-04	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	104	Main Headings	fallacies
Folio number	448	Info in main headings field	to erskine
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Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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