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1820 Feb 17

Radicalism not dangerous

III. Experience
II ireland
Ao 1791 United Irishmen
Declaration
+ Copy neither felt
"nor seen in p 177

Plowd. II. II. App. p. 176 Our principal rule of conduct has been
"to attend to those, things in which we agree, to exclude from
"our thoughts those in which we differ. We agree in knowing
" what are our rights, and in daring to assert them.
"if the rights of men be duties to God, we are in this respect
"of one religion. Our creed of civil faith is the same, we
"agree in thinking, that there is not an individual among
"our millions, whose happiness can be established
"on any foundation so rational and so solid, as on the
"happiness of the whole community, We agree therefore
"in the necessity of giving political value and station
"to the great majority of the people; and we think,
"that whosoever desired an amended constitution, without
"including the great body of the people must on his
"principles be convicted of political persecutions, and
"political monopoly. If the present electors be
"themselves a morbid party of our constitution,
"where are we to recur for redress, but to the whole
"community? "A more unjust and absurd constitution
"can not be devised than that, which condemns
"the natives of a country to perpetual servitudes under
"the arbitrary dominion of strangers and slaves."

"We agree in thinking, that the first and most indispensable
"conditions of the laws of a free state, is the assents
"of those, whose obedience they require, and for whose
"benefit only they are designed. Without, therefore
"an impartial and adequate representation of the
"community, we agree in declaring, we can have
"no constitution, no Country, no Ireland. Without
"this our late revolution we declare to be fallacious
"and ideal; a thing much talked of, but neither
"felt not seen."

Identifier: | JB/137/046/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 137.
Date_1	1820-02-12	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	137	Main Headings	radicalism not dangerous
Folio number	046	Info in main headings field	radicalism not dangerous
Image	001	Titles
Category	collectanea	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e2
Penner	jeremy bentham; john flowerdew colls	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[prince of wales feathers] i&m 1818]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	arthur wellesley, duke of wellington
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1818
Notes public		ID Number	46763
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