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1823
Greece
(1)
You have this In company with the corresondent merit, all this honor and dignity you have in whatsoever
quantity may be you deem requisite. For Unfortunately for For its support, unfortunately will each title with
and each ornament decoration requires money: but you know already where and how
to get it.
Still though your house of Lords you have your House of Lords
Still you have not as yet any such thing quality
in it as holiness. No holiness without Bishops. over the place Over a competent
number of them, place a competent number of Archbishops, you may thus condense any additional
quantity of holiness in the same place. This Into one and the same receptacle.
. This Every one of them In any desired every desirable degree of plenitude
the every one of them be these receptacles may be and will have been made full of the Holy Ghost,
but to accomplish this plenitude a proportionable
quantity of the manner of unrighteousness must have been forced into this unwilling
pockets: and to be forced into those holy sacred pockets it must have
been forced out of the pockets of the people.
One thing is Depends the power out of every hundred Electors of
the voting . and this most you have of being
that form of government in England by the name of
(2)
One thing is still wanting. It is The most important division arrangement in this scheme system of the division of power remains yet behind. It consists in the depriving the vast
majority of the people of their votes the which share constituted their
share in that supreme Constitutive power, which according on the
supposition we set out with was divided among them all in
equal portions. By the minute remnant the greater part of it in the
hands of the Members
of the Ho so called House
of Lords will there be
thereupon be chosen
another House of Lords
who for distinction sake
you may call a House
of Commons, this fundamental defalcation
accomplished, accomplishment is given to that form of
Government to which in England where no such document as
a Constitutional Code is in existence, is known by the name of
(3) the matchless Constitution: will be
and sure enough its match is not anywhere to be found.
In respect of money matters, would you see by the light of experience the effects of the
charge? Look to England and behold Annual expence
of government, more than exclusive of interest of national debt, £S118,477,636: annual interest
of national debt, more than such millions debt to be £St 30,932,494: the debt
of debts proposed in the shape of by one
part of the population the part: branch redeem a perpetual annuity to that amount: an annuity, the whole
of it indeed redeemable, but redeemable
with at a time that can never never can come.
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