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as the pattern and ground work of a gret plan
of constitutional improvement.* It
distributesdisseminates &
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.

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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 neverto to which their co-electors yielded.
Yet by the Statute in question the condition of this
meritoriou part so far from being better'd was rendered
worse than it was before. 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 whould have under the new constitution
in such manner that the weight of each man's
suffrage should bear the same proportion to
that the rest under the new constitution constitution as
ithad donedid under the old one. The benefits thus reserved
would in such case have told for more than
was in reality. The men by being only not punished

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Identifier: | JB/141/139/002"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 141.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	141	Main Headings	rationale of punishment
Folio number	139	Info in main headings field	punishment in alienam personam
Image	002	Titles	note / deodands / bail
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f39 / f40 / f41 / f42
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::l v g propatria [britannia motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	caroline vernon
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	48356
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