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5. Cartwright à W'ywili, 21 mai 1812 : Every mère palliative must be complex, and therefore divested of that clearness and force, which can alone take firm possession of the public mind. — Cartwright à Bentham, 7 août 1824 {life and letlers of Cartwright^ vol. II, pp. 276 sqq.) : The recommending simplicité in ail such documents (il s'agit de documents constitutionnels) is a leading object ot the political dialogue, althoogfa, in respect of England, muchmore is aimed at in the worklng of timeand truth... Taking the principles of that original polity as a basis for bis history, he (the historian) will then bave a criterion for ascertaining through the progress of events, whatever was in unison, or wbatever is in discordance with the trne constitution. He will, in particalar, be abie to appreciate the horrid havock of English liberties by the accursed Norman, and to unravel of ail the complexity and confusion which from the first introduction of the Norman counterfeit to this hour, hâve rendered our System an almost incompréhensible mystery. Nor vrill the historian be without a mirror, in which may be seen the errors and tbe vices of both Whigs and Tories, s Et Cartwright ajoute : If the author of the « Constitution Produced and Iliustrated » bave had the good fortune to dig up from among the ruins and rubbish accomolatiog

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through thirteen centuries, the genuine antique which exhibits the true form of our polity, what remains to be accomplished for the glory and happiness of England, but a code of corresponding laws, and wbo but a Bentham shall furnish such a code ?

6. Bowring, vol. X, p. 531 : Notes in Bentham's mémorandum booky 1822. Plan of Parliamentary Reform^ introd., sect. viii; Bowring, III, 464.