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33. C’est la proposition de Burdett. — Le 21 mai 1810, Brand demande « that the right of voting should be given to all householders paying paro-

chial and other taxes » (Hansard, vol. XVIII, p. 123). — En 1817 (Bowring, vol ILE, 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 thence a hideous phantom, until, elicited by severe and external pressure, the light of reason — or, if this would be too assuming, the light of ratiocination — was brought to bear 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 conelusive evidence of householdership, the fact of having paid direct taxes.