Personal representation independent of the extent of the suffrage, 204—Tests of electoral capacity, 204—Guizot, 205—Capacity Independent of place, 206—Town and country inhabitants, 206—Difficulties in asserting the rights of the latter, 207—Burke, 207—Conduct of proprietary classes, 208—Mr. Bright, 207, 208—Imaginary antagonism, 208—Importance of a just county representation, 209—Metropolitan constituencies, 210—Their failure in representation, 213 — Remedy, 214—Effect of individual electoral independence, 215—Defective judgment drawn off, 215—Scotch, Irish, county, and local preferences of some voters in metropolitan and other constituencies, 218—Individual independence consistent with local and territorial interests, but not è converso, 217—Distinct action of localities preserved, 218—Examples of Liverpool and North Cheshire, 219.
THE HOUSE OF COMMONS AND THE IMPERIAL GOVERNMENT.
Relation of constitution to government, page 221—Calhoun, 222—Pascal, 222—Guizot, 223—Burke, 223—Inevitable abuse of a sole depository of power, 224—Despotism of a multitude, 226—Concurrent consent, 228—British constitution, 228—Appeal to conscience and necessity, 229—Constitutional principle as opposed to mere physical power, 231—Concurrent interests and opinions in representative constitution, 232—Party government, 235—Means of perpetuating it, 237—Result, 238—Public opinion, 239—Its imperfect, false, or delusive declaration, 241—Public meetings, 241—Illustration in April, 1848, 242—The press, 244—Its function in forming public opinion or expressing it, 248—The House of Commons its proper exponent, 250—Ancient democratic law to ascertain public opinion, 251—Importance of decision, 253—Oratory less effectual than reading, 253—Stability of the position of individual statesmen, and of the general government, 254—Operation in political life of an enlarged range of causes, 256—Frequent elections with convenience and safety, 257.
THE SUFFRAGE.
Personal representation a subject apart from the suffrage, page 258— Qualification dependent on locality is unjust, 258—Principle of Mr. Locke King's Bill, 258—Equality of county and borough suffrage necessary, 259—Natural rights, 260—Burke, 260—Tests of electoral capacity, 263—Manhood; its legal, physiological, and statistical definitions, 263—Other qualifications or tests, 265—Proper conditions of such tests, 266—Accessibility, universality, and practicability of application, 266—Indirect
