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... weight should be given . It is therefore of paramount impor- tance to discover , and if possible remove , the causes which tend practically to exclude from representation so extensive and valuable a part of the electoral element ; and ...
... weight should be given . It is therefore of paramount impor- tance to discover , and if possible remove , the causes which tend practically to exclude from representation so extensive and valuable a part of the electoral element ; and ...
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... weight to opposing and conflicting interests , a salutary check is interposed to all precipitate resolutions . " They render deliberation a matter not of choice but of necessity ; they make all change a subject of compro- mise , which ...
... weight to opposing and conflicting interests , a salutary check is interposed to all precipitate resolutions . " They render deliberation a matter not of choice but of necessity ; they make all change a subject of compro- mise , which ...
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... weight to education , and that they did not intend to intimate any adoption of , or preference for , the details of the scheme adverted to in the address . The form in which it was proposed that the educational franchise should be con ...
... weight to education , and that they did not intend to intimate any adoption of , or preference for , the details of the scheme adverted to in the address . The form in which it was proposed that the educational franchise should be con ...
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... weight in the House of Com- mons , that the framers of our representative system exhaust themselves in ingenious contrivances to parcel the electors into such divisions that some may neutralise others , and thus reduce to its minimum ...
... weight in the House of Com- mons , that the framers of our representative system exhaust themselves in ingenious contrivances to parcel the electors into such divisions that some may neutralise others , and thus reduce to its minimum ...
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... weight to the landed and agricultural interest , has shorn the county population of half of its political weight . The hypothesis that the county elec- tors did not represent themselves , but were the agents , or retainers , of the land ...
... weight to the landed and agricultural interest , has shorn the county population of half of its political weight . The hypothesis that the county elec- tors did not represent themselves , but were the agents , or retainers , of the land ...
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