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and consequently mob-governed, assemblage of delegates would swallow up and supersede the constitutional authorities of the state.
I repeat, my dear Sir, that it is impossible, as it is also intolerable, that the work should begin from the People.—Every such attempt must be considered as a wild and wanton inversion of axioms of political wisdom which time and experience have consecrated; and although it might begin with an apparent promise of good, would inevitably produce (as such attemps invariably have produced) revolution and ruin.
From whom then must the measure of Parliamentary Reform originate, if not from the people?
The proposition which I am about to
