Plan of Parliamentary Reform Author:Jeremy Bentham Subtitle: In the Form of a Catechism, With Reasons for Each Article, With an Introduction, Shewing the Necessity of Radical, and the Inadequacy of Moderate, Reform General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1817 Original Publisher: Printed for R. Hunter, successor to Mr. Johnson Subjects: Great Britain History / Europ... more »e / Great Britain Law / Constitutional Political Science / General Political Science / Government / Legislative Branch Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: 4 15. Representatives -- Impermanence of their Situation -- its Importance -- Objections -- their Groundlessness. On this part of the field, into a comparatively small compass must be compressed whatever can here be said: by the joint pressure of time and space, no inconsiderable quantity of matter, that had been collected for the purpose of this section, has, for the present at least, of necessity been extruded. Utility and usage, -- to one or other of these heads may be referred whatsoever matter can here find robm for the reception of it. Utility, as deducible from the unquestionable principles of human nature, as manifested by universal experience; usage, a. source of argument, the demand for which will be seen to arise -- partly, out of the connexion it has with utility through the medium of experience; partly out of the means of defence it will be seen to afford against adverse prejudices and fallacies. Shield-note: a gag for Scorners. On three several subjects, viz. for Standing Armies and demand for Revolution, as well as Annual Parliaments, behold the opinions of Dr. Swift .' -- opinions, not thrown wit on the sudden, for a party purpose, or in the heat of debate; but, in a state of retirement, after a ...« less