JunitUf éd. de 1812, en particulier vol. I, p

14. The Speeches of Mr. Wilkes, in the Uouse of Commons, 1786, p. 54 sqq.

15. The Législative Rights, § 41. — C'est exactement le futur programme « radical » et c'est aussi le futur programme « chartiste ». Dans la brochure de Cartwright se trouve peut-être pour la première fois employé le mot <K radical v dans son acception politique. Y. § 116 : « Annual Parliaments with an equal représentation of the commons are the only spécifies ia this case; and they would eflect a radical cure ».

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16. Législative RighU, etc., § 152 sqq. Sketch of Pro\isions to be madoby ParLiamentforsecuring an cqualReprosootalion, aiul an annual Parliauient for ail limes to conie. — Cartwrigbl choisit l'âge do dix-huit ans, parce que c'est Page de la milice, el que les registres se trouveraient tout dressés. 11 justifie le scrutin secret : < this would preveat undue influence, personal offence, and self-reproach. But it would not prevent that influence whLch ought to foUow worth, wisdom, and a right use of wealth. » — Cartwright n'accorde cependant pas le droit de vote aux femmes. (The Législative Rights, § 55). Tucker avait demandé, si tous les hommes doivent voter, pourquoi ne pas étendre aux femmes Tapplication du même principe. < It might perhaps be a want of politeness to ask thèse gentlemen if they seriously meant what they said ; but, as I am serions myself, I >vill beg leave to refer the Dean to the ScriptureSf and the other gentleman to the law of nature and the commun law of Eiiglandy and both of them to the fair sex, in order to settle this point. Man and wife are called in scripture one fleshj in law one person ; and

by both, the temporal dominion is given to the man Women know

too well what God and nature requires of them to put in so absurd a claim for a share in the rights of élection. Their privilèges and power arc of another kind ; and they know their sphère. »