Upper Canada Return To An Address Of The Honourable The House Of Commons

Author : Great Britain Parliament
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780266010197
Total Pages : 28 pages
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Download or read book Upper Canada written by Great Britain Parliament and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-09 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Upper Canada: Return to an Address of the Honourable the House of Commons, Dated 18th July 1833 In the state of Maine, as I am informed, this difficulty was so sensibly felt, as to have led to the introduction of the system adopted in Upper Canada in the year.1820. In apportioning the elective franchise amongst the inhabitants, the Legislature did not confine its attention exclusively to the question of property and of numbers, but introduced a new element into the calculation; they considered that a small number of persons occupying one county might reasonably claim as large a share in the representation as a much larger and wealthier body occupying another county of equal dimensions; by this method members were drawn from every part of the province, the local wants of every part were explained, and the interests of each vindicated. In a densely-peopled country, 'like Great Britain, possessing such internal communication as to secure the immediate diffusion of intelligence from one end of the kingdom to the other, this precaution might be the less necessary, since no part is so remote or inaccessible as not to be rapidly reached by information of every projected law, or as to be destitute of the means of making an early protest against any measure injurious to its welfare. Yet even in this kingdom, where the subject has within the last two years undergone the most public and rigid scrutiny, no one, so far as I am aware, has seriously ad vanced the opinion, that the representation of the metropolis should bear to that of the country at large, the proportion which the wealth or population of London bears to that of England collectively. Such a principle would have given to the metropolitan districts between 40 or 50 members, a scheme which, I need scarcely say, would have been rejected by the entire body of the people as altogether nu equal, though resting upon a foundation of the most perfect nominal equality. 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.