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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: cutly with the preservation of social order ? of society ? it would still be impossible to extirpate or effectually to counteract the influence of property, in whose hands soever it might be placed. Pluck out of the vilest of the bellowing bullies surrounding the hustings, him (of course a non-elector) most conspicuous for his insolence and brutality; imagine him suddenly or gradually become the owner of a great, or a small property, with the influence it gives him over customers, tenants, dependents: do you suppose that he will not at once, either gently or roughly, according to his temper, begin to exercise his power, (that which is so dear to the heart of man, ) by dictating the exercise of the elective franchise on behalf of those political opinions which he may happen to favour? Is not This the man to instruct, and the better, in proportion to the extent of his real influence? Except in those brief and horrid intervals of social convulsion, in which Jixa iiai navtci naiiv atinirai, however popularized and extended may apparently be the system of electing parliamentary representatives, those who really return members to Parliament will ? whether themselves actually electors or not, and whether directly or indirectly ? be the holders of property, in villages, in towns, in cities, in boroughs and counties. The influence of property is, in truth, inevitable as that of gravitation: and losing sight of this, people may split their heads in vain, and chatter till the arrival of the Greek kalends, about extending further and further the elective franchise, shortening Parliaments, and voting by ballot. Whether it ought to be so, signifies little, when we know that it is, and will be so: ? but now it is time to return to the Yatton election; and if I be but this once forgiven, I will n...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217882408 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217882404 |
| Weight | 1.47 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.02 In |
| List Price | $25.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 458 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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