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33. C'est la proposition de Burdett. — Le 21 mai 1810, Brand demande « that the riglit ofvotin*? should be given to ail bouseholders payingparo-

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chial and other taxes » (Hansard, vol. XVIII, p. 123)» — En 1817 (Bowring, vol III, p. 467, note), après avoir affirmé le principe du suffrage universel, Bentham ajoute : « In this state, for a long course of years, was my own mind :

— the object a dark, and thenoe a hideous phantom, until, elicited by severe and external pressure, the light oîreason — or, if this would be too assuming? the light of i atiocination — was brought tobear upon it. In the Plan itself may be seen at what period (viz. anno 1809), fearful of going further, — embracing the occasion of finding, in derivative judgment, an exterior support — I was not only content, but glad, to stop at the degree of extension indicated by the word householders; — taking at the same time for conclusive évidence of householdership, the fact of having paid direct taxes.