Excerpt from On the Ballot: From the Westminster Review Besides the class, of whom we have hitherto spoken, who think that only the farce of voting should exist, - there is another class of our public men, who say, that they to whom the suffrage is given ostensibly, in England, exercise it substantially. These men, of course, hold, that such a portion of the people as, in England, have the show, should have the reality, of voting; otherwise they would belong to the class of whom we have already treated, and of whom it is ...
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Excerpt from On the Ballot: From the Westminster Review Besides the class, of whom we have hitherto spoken, who think that only the farce of voting should exist, - there is another class of our public men, who say, that they to whom the suffrage is given ostensibly, in England, exercise it substantially. These men, of course, hold, that such a portion of the people as, in England, have the show, should have the reality, of voting; otherwise they would belong to the class of whom we have already treated, and of whom it is not at present necessary to say any thing more. It is implied in the supposed existence of such a class, that they believe the true, not the pretended, exercise of the power of choosing by the people who vote, to be necessary to good government. The good arising from the freedom of suffrage being upon this supposition the greatest possible, the evil from corrupted suffrage, corrupted either by hope of reward or dread of punishment, the greatest possible - what would men do, who were in earnest about the attainment of this good, escape from this evil 2' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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