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Ch 10 Peoples best course
2 Grattan answered
Universality undangerous

"landholder, the farm of the freeholder, the lease of the leaseholder,
"and the trade of the Citizen, to be ordered and disposed
"of by a majority, who are confessed to have neither Estate,
"nor farm, nor lease, nor trade. That is the plan that robs
"the IIndividual and the community of the fruits of their
"industry and destroys the representation of property. |

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Representative of existence
an affected and nonsensical
conceit

"Under the pretence of establishing a representation of existence,
"it destroys a principle which is real and sacred,
"to establish a concept conceit which is affected and nonsensical.|

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3. It gives view to
Soldiers, Police Officers
Scavengers and beggars
and criminals

"But it is not merely to those who have neither farm,
"freeholder, nor trade, that this plan extends the right of voting, — it
"gives the return of Members to serve in Parliament to all the
"common Soldiers, to the resident army, horse, foot and dragoons,
"to the police to the scavenger. It goes farther, it gives that right
"to all hospitals — to almsmen — to channel now —and every
"Beggarman in the Kingdom of Ireland. It goes farther, it gives
"that right to every Criminal white boys that break laws —
"and defenders who steal arms; and would thus present you
"with a representation of felony as well as of paupers. |

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4. Non proprietors being
the majority, proprietors
would not be represented

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"such a monstrous Constitution, whose frenzy, folly, and
"wickedness, must excite at once your scorer and harrow,]
"the objection is not merely that such persons would be
"represented, but the persons who have no property in land,
"lease, freehold, or trade, being confessedly the majority, it
"follows under such a plan that such persons alone would
"be represented, and that the landholder, leaseholder, farmer and
"tradesman, confessedly the minority with their one vote only,
"this plan allows them no more, would not be represented
"at all; it follows, that those who have nothing in land,
"lease, farm, or trade, would return the parliament;
"that is, those who had nothing in the common stock
"would make the laws, and the men who receive arms alms wd
"vote the taxes.|

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Catholic was held you deemed
a slave because taxed
without his consent
by them, Catholic &
Protestant would be
taxed without their
consent

You held the Catholic to be a slave when
"his property was taxed without his consent by the Protestant;
"the plan of personal representation does away the
"franchise of the Catholic Bill, and taxes both Protestant
"and Catholic without the consent of either by introducing
"a new set of voters; who shall outnumber both,
a

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	4-7
Box	137	Main Headings	radicalism not dangerous
Folio number	461	Info in main headings field	to erskine
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Category	collectanea	Number of Pages	1
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