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Qualification. I
In order further to illustrate the drift of the above
As a means of
throwing &c
throw a little
more light upon
the subject than
what immediate purpose<add>the matter</add> would be one
of the above remarks
would
give room for
requisite remarks I cannot forbear attempting to
give a short sketch after a manner asomewhat little
# accordingly to
method
have to say on
this occasion more methodical # principal points of the objects of attention
which</add> required to be kept in view in the framing
of a Qualification Law. What<add>The few remarks<add>short </add> I shall
have occasion to saymake for this purpose on this head will be is the
+
inability
being superfluous the more ponderable less chargeable with + misplacedout<add>super of place</add>, as ill placed[+]
the topic of qualification occurrs in many places frequently in
the Statute Book, in some of which is at take & not a little depends upon
the exactness with requisite in which it is handled.
its being well handled.
[+]
consider
[&c
alibi]
To the Legislative therefore who would keep in view there
two ends In a businesstherefore of this sort there are three main
points to be consider'd.
1st How to select the several species [+] of
[+] quantities property in subserviency to the first of these
ends and in consistency with the 2d.
2. How to adapt the verbal description of these species
—
to the several species which are selected in
—
that those not
comprized in it
shall actually be
excluded?
the exclusion being
put in force against
those at whom it
is levelled.
Idea. | It is in the nature of the 1st of these points every
| now & then to give reason to disputes, which
| no certain medium can ever be found for terminating
3. How to give effect to that selection by contriving that those all such persons as which are meant to be excluded
shall actually be + excluded.
+ remain
not interfere
The greatdirect difficulty in settling the 1st of these
To solve the 1st of problems to satisfaction
points to satisfaction is surety to therebeingis difficult enough there is no standard
of the propriety of the solution more precise
than the mere opinion the variable opinions of men.
To settle the 1st of
these points to general
satisfaction
since if different Sums
should be insisted
on by different persons
The 2d of these problems
however capable of an exact solution is one of the most intricate problems
( to judge of the its difficulty
of it from the
of those who
have undertaken it
os far from being
one of the easiest
problems in the
science to resolve in the whole Science as it involves andit involves in
it the dire adjustmentit the dire adjustment of the several names
to the several species of property of which
names those which are most current, the
familiar, are unhappily as we have seen in one mixture equivocal, and
those which might be substituted in the room
of them, should they even if they should univocal
[+]be obscure for
want of being
nothing
unfamiliar & determinate [+], because not familiar,
be obscure. Precision, of itself, is difficult
but Precision and Propensity together in a few words, would
for a time at least be impossible.
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Hence we see the
advantage of augmenting
the number
of persons admissible
either by anexingadmitting
the qualifications
of property, then by
receiving to those
of rank
on behalf of the public
at large
entrance into the
office
A certain rank or a certain property in the
person, one or other or both together (for
the discrimination is not very accurality performed )
is assumed in ideas as the immediate+
standard of his fitness. Thereupon
it becomes one object, that the door be not
open to any who fell short of that of that standard:
barred another that it be not shut against any who
come up to it. Misuser of the powers of
it is what is apprehended in the first case
Non-user thro' point of persons to fill it ()
is the danger (of the part of the public
in the latter: not to insist on to say nothing of the injustice
that there is to individuals in excluding such
as come within the line of fitness from their chance, where the
office is an object of desire.
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