A  rdbrm  undoubtedhr  would  make  a  diange,
but  it  would  not  be  in  the  constitution*
thoi^,  to  be  sure,  a  change  from  sickness  to
beaitii,  is  so  far  a  change  m  the  constitution ;
but  it  is  possible  that  vou  may  recover  your
Ijristine  health,  and  make  no  alteration  in  your
former  constitution ;  you  only  do  awav  your
disease ;  and  that  is  the  way  in  which  a  re»
form  is  meant  to  operate.  He  pleads  much
against  universal  suflrage,  and  annual  partia-
ments.  Indeed  annual  parliaments  he  touches
more  tenderiyupon,  and  be  is  right.  How*
ever,  the  same  power  that  made  them  from
annual  to  triennial,  and  from  triennial  to  sep-
tennial, may  very  likely  go  on  to  make  them
for  life,  or  even  hereditary.  But  to  show  that
universal  suffrage  has  taken  place,  I  will  gve
vou  a  quotatk>n  from  a  Scotch  author.  The
lord  advocate  has  said,  it  could  not  take  place
for  the  best  of  all  possiMe  reasons  (and  I
have  heard  that  twice  in  this  court),  because
it  is  impracticable.  A  lord,  learned  in  the  law,
and  whose  authority  none  here  will^deny,k>rd
Kaimes,  says  that,  '*  with  regard  to  this  mat*
tcr  one  tiling  is  certain,  that  the  *  Reeiam
'  Majestatem^was  compiled  in  the  days  oTeoe
of  our  Davids.  The  author,  whoever  he  be,
declares  that  he  was  commanded  by  kine
David,  to  compile  this  work,  with  the  counsel
and  advice  of  his  whole  realm.^  There,  gen*
tlemen,  you  see  it  was  not  the  advice  Mro-
presentatives ;  not  the  advice  of  itMlividuals;
but  it  was  the  advice  of  his  whole  reafanv
The  same  lord  Kaimes  does  not  fix  a  govern*
ment,  or  a  constitution  to  any  one  particnkr
point.  He  does  not  tell  you  that  the  consti-
tution of  Great  Britain,  is  the  very  best  that
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lord  does;  or  timt  it  will  endure  to  all  eterni-
ty; but  be  says,  **  Government  is  one  of  tbe
arts  whicb  necessity  has  suggested,  which
time  and  experience  have  ripened,  and  which
is  susceptible  of  improvements  without  end.
