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Collective punisht
New as the pattern and ground work of a great plan
of constitutional improvement.* It distributes disseminates &
throws into more hands the great privilege of election,
the gre only branch of power which a greatany large
body bodies among of the people can possessfind it for their advantage.
to possess.
Note
* One thing let me be permitted to mention which I
think would have been an improvement. and would
have done all that could be wanting to reconcile the
measure to the strict pinciples of ordinary justice.
A part of the electors stood in a meritorious light. They
had either the merit to withstand, or the good fortune to
escape, the temptation under to to which their co-electors yielded.
Yet by the Statute in question the condition of this
meritorious part so far from being better'd was rendered
worse than it was before. presented
There was a method by which
this mightI think have been prevented without
the least prejudice to the reforming part of the measure.
and at the same time a short signal encouragement
held out to conscientious Electors: and this without
any prejudice to the reforming part of the measure.
The expedient was a simple one. It was but the
adding to the number of votes which each of the
sound voters should have under the new constitution
in such manner that the weight of each man's
suffrage should bear the same proportion to
that of the rest under the new constitution constitution as
it did had done under the old one. The benefits thus reserved
would in such case have told for more than it
was in reality. The men by being only not punished
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punishment in alienam personam |
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jeremy bentham |
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caroline vernon |
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