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31 Decr 1807
Lords Delegates

What question qualification do you require for your
Lords Delegates? – was the hasty question of an enlightened
friend mind.⊞ ⊞ The closer the qualification, the stricter the restraint upon the choice and power of the House: and no such restraint at all seems to promise any advantage. What qualification can there be any use in
requiring? In the nature of the case, noth no considerations
but those of public interest – on the part in the person of the person object of choice
chosen, no opinion but that of superior aptitude of a
degree of aptitude not to be found in the electoral body
itself, presents itself seems as at all likely to carry in danger of carrying the choice
of that body august branch of the legislature out of its own circle. The scoring attached
to the in which the proposed made of

If in consequence of the non-execution of a qualification under the latitude allowed in regard to qualifications
the virtual nomination were to be in the Crown –
say in the Minister, alone, it would only at the worst be in no other hands
than the nomination of the only efficient three assured and sure and compleat
members of the judicatory, the Chancellor, the Chairman of
Committees and the Right Reverend Prelate attending by rotation
to read prayers, amongst whose including the one the only Member whose of the three
who is commonly supposed to be attendant in mind as well as body, is
in at present. But under the veil of secrecy attached to the
proposed mode of election, no such influence as that of will
over will, no other than the unpreventable and not undesirable salutary
influence of understanding over understanding could
in this instance take any hold find any hold to take, even in the most obsequious
mind.

The power which in the only way in which it is now possible for
them to exercise it, would continue continue to be submitted to by his Majesty's
subjects of all ranks with universal and ever respectful complacency and acquiescence,
is the same the exercise of which not much more than a century ago found was not on the
part of the co-ordinate authority endured and left undisturbed till but at
the end of a most angry violent struggle maintained for a long course of years.

Identifier: | JB/106/219/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 106.
Date_1	1807-12-31	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	106	Main Headings	scotch reform
Folio number	219	Info in main headings field	lords delegates
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	34807
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