JB/137/271/001

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1820 Feb. 22
Radicalism not dangerous

6 ulto
III Experience
II Ireland
3 §2 Democratic ascendency

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Commercial emancipation
a temporary object.
parliamentary, a perpetual.
This a change —
a subversion of the Constitution:
as truly as
radical reform would
be.

The first object was in its nature a casual and temporary
one: the other a permanent one. It was no less
than the making effecting in the constitution of the government
a most important change: such a change as
till it was effected would, by all to whom it was
an object of displeasure be styled a subversion: and
when effected was as truly so as radical reform in
the state of the representation in the new United Parliament of
the new United Kingdom would be

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Effect of this change
great diminution of
the power of the Houses
in Britain; thence of
do of the Monarch by
whose influence their
conduct is habitually
determined. Machinery
of government more
complicated: its motion
less promptly and
surely obsequious:
opening for a conflict
of wills between people
and people thence embarassment
to the common rulers.
Hence some aversion
in English Cabinet
by whose will the
conduct of the Vice Roy
and thence of the Irish
Houses were determined
embarassment which
gave birth to the

Of In the endeavour to effect this change
On the power of the two branches of the legislature
in Great Britain the effect produced by this change would
obviously account to be be that of/have the effect of producing a very considerable diminution:
on the power of these two bodies, and thence on that
of the Monarch in respect of that influence by which
their conduct had till that time been, and were
from that time ever has been determined: the machinery
of government would thereby be rendered more complicated: the
its motion less promptly and surely and completely obsequious to the
directing hands as bet by the collusion of as between the people
of the one nation and the people of the other, by the collision
of interest, a conflict of wills and thence more or less
of embarassment to their common rulers might naturally
be apprehended. To this As towards this any such change nothing less
would at any time be expected than a perfectly divided and and consequent opposition on the part
of the English Cabinet by whose will the conduct of the
Vice Roy and thence of the two Houses of Parliament in Ireland
had constantly been determined could be expected. In a word
those embarassments for the removal of which the Union of the two Parliaments
was so soon after effected, could not but be produced.

Identifier: | JB/137/271/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 137.
Date_1	1820-02-22	Marginal Summary Numbering	7-8
Box	137	Main Headings	radicalism not dangerous
Folio number	271	Info in main headings field	radicalism not dangerous
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d6 / e3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	46988
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