The Comparison: in Which Mock Reform, Half Reform, And Constitutional Reform Are Considered
The Comparison: in Which Mock Reform, Half Reform, And Constitutional Reform Are Considered
John Cartwright
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Having spent my early life in the sea service, it afforded no dis- play of fine writing; it dealt but litde m trope or metaphor; but in very plain English it contended for representation co-extensive with taxation, — for a fair distribution of that representation, — wAfor the restoration of annual parliaments. Has the collec- tive wisdom of my country in three and thirty years done more ! Digitized by Google 9ow could it? If we stop shprt of iiniyiersid safir^e, jg nojfc tliis ^ aQ dbe constitu...tion cm give us? and all that is reqiured, in ike science of civil government, for the security of lil^erty, propertjr, and life? At dbat time I ^rgu^ thati as all men wep talced, all ought to be represented^ independent of the other ground al- ready noticed. The flight divernty of opinion aboyemeoti^Mied l>eing nowy however, reduced to a plain practical ruk g^ wbicih all constitutional reformers are agreed^ no mpie p^ now be 0aid about it A Scotch lawyer who pretends fp the ability pf mmdingy and of improving* the IPlnghsh constitution, may think my doctrine *' folly/' but by what kind of logic he is to mal^e it out, that three and thirty years of reasoning is *^ violence/' I am^t a loss to conjecture.
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