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1819 Dec. 20
Radicalism not dangerous
1. Accusation &c
2 §.3 Plan of this degree
Under the pressure of this untoward necessity, the course
I shall take that will be taken is this.
1: In the first place from the consideration of the general
nature of the case, that neither the accomplishment
of any subversive partition, use therefore the formation of
the any such correspondent design is or was possible as ever
will be possible. This will be the business of Part II
of this short tract
II. In the second place I shall shew that in by the
particular experience which information afforded
in relation to this subject may be seen a
sufficient security against evil preponderant not only in this
shape put in every other shape,
II. If from the power which radical reform would
place in the hands of men of the class of universal-suffrage men, or
at any rate in all householders preponderant evil
in any other shape were justly and reasonably
to be apprehended, the impossibility of its taking
place would be no sufficient defence. But as a
ground for any such supposition, neither argument
deduced from the general nature of the case, nor experience
in any particular instance has ever been adduced.
In proof support of the opposite assurance I shall
adduce bring to view in the first place the case of the United States
I Under that head I shall shew that call to mind
that so far from anarchy, government better in
every respect whatever than in England as in that country
the result of not merely democratic ascendency in a Monarchy, but of actual democracy
and
and that the class
of persons under whose
influence in the character
of Electors the business of that really
matchless government is
earned in are persons
whose condition is not
substantially different
from that of universal suffrage mean here. This will from the business of
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