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1820 Jan. 15
Radicalism not dangerous

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III Experience
II Ireland
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Evidence

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III. Experience. II Ireland.
Parliamentary
emancipation.
Years 1777 to 1783.

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Part III Defence from particular experience in the
case of Ireland: namely of Irish Parliamentary Emancipation
in the years from 1777 to 1783.

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State of proved During
this time. Democratic
ascendency had place<lb?> 1 Subversion of right of
property
2. Of competition, none
3. Evil none
4. Good do much
tranquillity morality
felicity matchless
5 Laws still existing
and in England as well
as Ireland acknowledging
good passed established enacted

The proof afforded in this case is shortly thus. In Ireland
In and during the five or six years in question, democratic ascendency
actually had place. The result was The results were
1 Subversion of the ri
1. Subversion of the right of the people property, none
2. Subversion of the Constitution, none
3. Preponderant or considerable evil in any shape, none
4. Preponderant evil good in all shapes abundant during the whole time tranquillity,
morality, felicity altogether without example to a degree much beyond any
in that thing ever exemplified in that country
before or since

5. In particular, laws of the utmost importance enacted
laws the utility justice and utility in all respects was recognized
by the Parliament of both countries, and have
never since been disputed

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6. The official cause
democratic ascendency
not democracy. By
authority
every thing done

6. The means power whereby these purposes so transcendently beneficial were
accomplished, was in strict propriety of expression, democratic
ascendency. Not democracy; itself because for the constituted
authorities continued all of them without exception
in the full exercise of their functions: and whatsoever was done, even in the framing of these the laws, by
these hands that it which these purposes were
accomplished it was
by their hands that
it was done yet it was democratic
ascendency: for the body of the people — among their universal
suffrage men as many as chose — having met assembling in bodies —
those bodies even armed and — formed at Dublin by their
Deputies in National Convention sitting close to the Parliament
at the same time, with the military power
of the country compleatly at their command, and making made known
known on every subject their wishes to the Parliament. These wishes
were in a state of known undisputed opposition contrarity to what had from the
earliest
earliest been the supposed
interest and thence
the wishes of the all
English Monarchs, their
and Parliaments:
yet notwithstanding
fulfilled: fulfilled the fulfilment having for its evident cause, the ascendency obtained by the body of the people, and the influence
which they were thereby enable to exert and did accordingly exercise on
the conduct of the government in both countries.

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Still democratic ascendency.
BY democratic influence every
thing done: by universal suffrage men armed
in bodies:
by their delegates in
sitting down in
Parliament: notorious
opposition to their
English Monarchs and Parliaments

Identifier: | JB/137/265/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 137.
Date_1	1820-01-15	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-4
Box	137	Main Headings	radicalism not dangerous
Folio number	265	Info in main headings field	radicalism not dangerous
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d1 / e1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[prince of wales feathers] i&m 1816]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	arthur wellesley, duke of wellington
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1816
Notes public		ID Number	46982
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