Excerpt from The Real Representation of the People Of the political enfranchisement Of the people as Of equal interest and common benefit. To adopt a phrase of Burke's, politics ought to be adjusted to human nature, and the proper business of the government ought to be; to ascertain the general wish and requirements of the nation, legislating in accordance therewith. In one of his speeches the elo quent calumniator of the French Revolution said, The people will have it so, and it is not for their representatives to say nay; yet either of the members now sitting for Manchester may hear that the non-electors, inhabitants of that city, have assembled to the number of in front of the Infirmary, declaring in favour of some measure, and he may, under present circumstances, altogether disregard their united voice, because politically they are dumb. Each individual of the may be a tax-paying, law-observing machine, but he is destitute of any rights as a citizen: he has no vote, no voice in the government Of his country. The Imperial Parliament is elected without his sanction, he contributes no choice, has no part in its selection; all his duty is to obey its edicts, his privilege to pay and pine. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.