Excerpt from The Great Question for the People: Essays on the Elective Franchise; Or, Who Has the Right to Vote?Shall we then call the former architects to build for us? They set their own house upon shifting sands and made it lean so as to fall upon ours They had laws to produce and protect crime through a few gene rations, and to ensure ruin of the whole State at the last. What they have suffered and what we have barely escaped should make us careful for ever.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition.

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