The Rights of the People Containing the Principles And a Demonstration of the P
The Rights of the People Containing the Principles And a Demonstration of the P
Paley, William, 1743-1805
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that other has a right to exclude him. Will the rich exclude them- selves? No. Will the poor exclude themselves? No. By what right then can any be excluded ? The poor will not delegate such a right to the rich, nor the rich to the poor ; and to assume it is not only to assume arbitrary power, but to assume a right to commit robbery. Personal rights, of which the right of voting representa- tives is one, are a species of property of the most sacred kind : it is the primary right, by which other ...rights are pro- tected. To take away this right is to reduce a man to a state of slavery, for slavery consists in being subject to the will of another ; and he that has not a vote in the election of representatives, is in this case. The only ground upon which exclusions from the right of voting is consistent with justice, would be to inflict it as a punishment for a certain time upon those who should propose to take that right from others. That which is now called Aristocracy, implies an inequa* lity of rights (t).
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