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33. C'est la p oposition de Burdett. — Le 21 mai 1810, Brand demande

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« that the right of voting should be given to ail householderspayingparochial and other taxes » (Hansard, vol.XVHI, p. 123), — En 1817 (Bowring, vol III, p. 4fi7, note >, après avoir affirmé le principe du suffrage universel, Bentham ajoute : « lu this scate, for a long course of years, was my own mind : — the object a dark, and thence a hideous phantom, until, elicited by severe and external pressure, the light otreuwn — or, if tins would be too assuuiing, the light of rattoci nation — was brought lobear upon it. In the Plan itself luay be seen at what period i viz. an no 1809), fearful of going further, — embracing the occasion of finding, in derivative judgment, an ex te ri or support — I was not only content, but glad, to stop at the degree of extension indicated by the word Iwuseholders; — taking at the saine time for conclusse évidence of householdershîp, the fact of having paid direct taxes.