Plan of Parliamentary Reform, in the Form of a Catechism, with Reasons for Each Article; With an Introduction, Shewing the Necessity of Radical, and the Inadequacy of Moderate, Reform (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1818. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... 4. By keeping out of the House such persons as, on the ground of experience, shall, either in their own judgment, or that of their Constitutional Judges, the People, have been found unable to abide this test. 7. Means, &c. continued. V. Attendance, punctual and general, secured. Question 19. To which of the ends does constancy and punctuality of attendance, on the part of each Member, and thence of the whole House, promise to be conducive ? Answer. To all three ends. Question 20. In what way to problty? Answer. In sundry ways, as follows*; viz. 1. Whatsoever indication can be alForded, by the correct and compleat taking down and publishing a man's speeches, as above, it is only through the medium of his attendance, and in proportion to the constancy of his attendance in the House, that any such speeches can be afforded. 2. When the-state of law and custom (with the exception of such of the Members, whose constant obsequiousness to the will of the Arch-tempter, 6' r General, together with the whole of their support on every occasion, is secured by the dependance of their situations) leaves it altogether at a man's option whether he will attend or not--in this case, by simply forbearing to attend at the place where, in point of moral duty, his attendance is due, it is, on every occasion, in the power of any man, and every man, to afford to the Arch-tempter, and that without either shame or danger, exactly half the support which he could have afforded, by attending and voting on that side: --and so, in the case of any particular pernicious measure, to which he finds himself exposed to the temptation of shewing undue favour: thus, whether it be by leaving unopposed what he ought to have opposed, or by leaving unsupported what he ought to have supporte...