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1821 March 27. 1822 Aug. 5.
Rid Yourselves
11.
Other than express solicitation,
has a member
no means of giving
to understand that the
appointment of his
son or other relative
would be agreeable to
him. A prostitute – has
she no means of offering
herself but by naming
things by their names?
Not a bar this but a
mast to corrupt obsequiousness.
But how
transparent! A schoolboy
should be ashamed
not to have seen through
it.
12.
If a deputy solicits,
what is he the worse?
Void the appointment
is not made: nor, without
injustice and absurdity,
could it be: if yes,
then by soliciting for him,
an adversary might prevent
a man's having an
appointment.
Punishable the solicitor
is not made.
13.
Transparency not compleat,
comes Art. 130 to
add to it. "Neither, during
deputation, nor for a year
next ensuing, can Deputy
obtain for self, solicit for
another; pension or dignity."
14.
Instead of prevention,
suppose allowance intended
– could it have
been more effectually
expressed?
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15.
See here a Sovereign legislative
body, every
Member sitting in expectation
of income to any
amount depending on
King's pleasure! This the
sole check for preventing
the nation from being
replunged into the gulph
of despotism.
16.
At a year's end, a Member,
loaded with pensions and
covered with ribbons, will
not be prevented from sitting
in any succeeding Cortes.
Thus not a deputy
may the people have, whose
interest is not in irreconcileable
opposition to theirs:
who is not an instrument
where he ought to be a check.
17.
Compare this facility with
the scrupulosity shown in
other instances. Exclusion
where, from admission, no
evil effects were possible.
Grounds of exclusion.
I. From Membership.
1. Non-arrival at the age
of 25.
2. Non-citizenship.
3. Not being a native of
the province where chosen
or having resided in it
for seven years.
4. Not having an income
of is own to an amount
not yet settled.
5. Foreignership – not curable
by naturalization.
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18.
Though, in the opinion of
the only Judges, to whom
any evidence can have
presented itself, ever so fit,
no services he is capable
of rendering will the scribe
suffer the nation to have the
benefit of. Without evidence,
he knows better than they
with ever so much evidence.
19.
To the situation of Representative,
the same blind,
groundless yet too customary,
applies with its qualifications
and disqualifications.
Of no man's service
can an Electoral body give
the country the benefit,
unless he has property to a
certain amount (Art 92.)
and was born within a
certain space. Art 96.
20.
Is it in a man's nature to
prefer, in such a case,
unapt foreigners to apt
natives. Fear of Ghosts &c.
is not more groundless
than of inundation of
foreigners at in such a place.
20(a.)
In England, great the outcry
when half a dozen seats
in the Common's House were
filled by the Nabol of Arcot.
yet, in the ocean of corruption,
these were but a
drop. Nor by free Election
where they filled but in the English mode, by purchase.
21.
Note the inconsistency.
Into Ultramaria,
of Spaniards sent by single
patrons to collect plunder
from thence for Spain. Yet
this, instead of being opposed,
is promoted and
counted upon.
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