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1819 Dec 6
Radicalism not dangerous
Introd.
1. recapitulated
2. Virtual universality
the only extent defensible
in principle or permitting
to universal satisfaction
WithFor housholder suffrage
J.B. would gladly
compound: but able
to few a reason for
the exclusion must
have it to others,
12. Virtual universality wasis there proposed as being the
only degree of extent which seemed either defensible
in principle , or affording any assured promise of giving
universal satisfaction or any near approach.
In regard to extent I for my own part of it depended
in me would gladly compound for housholder suffrage.
but But if I am But I do not well see it should come to pass that how those
who byin this in place would be excluded from the right
of suffrage and who would perhaps constitute a majority
of male adults should be satisfied with such
exclusion: and being myself unable to find what
appears to me a reason in favour of it, I will
have the to such persons those who consider themselves as in blue eyes are
able to accomplish it who in their opinion to whom it appears that they have the means
of accomplishing
it are to be found
have the means of accomplishing it.
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3. Absolute equality
being impossible,
must stand
of it. Local
can
</del never require
the largestmost densely peopled district
to be more than
four times as populous
as the most
thinly peopled
3. Absolute equality being physically impossible
if equality be at all regarded, practical equality
must of necessity be substituted. Local
can not but prosecute and that throughout the whole country a degree of departure more or
less considerable. But that scarcely to say that in
any instance such departure should be made prescribed by from it
as shall render the votes in the most densely peopled populous district
the most thereby peopled district seems altogether beyond
the bounds of probability. .
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