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This is very much the reason why our old rights of suffrage were so various; the Government let whatever people happened to be the strongest in each town choose the members.
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Walter Bagehot
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gutenberg.orgThis is very much the reason why our old rights of suffrage were so various; the Government let whatever people happened to be the strongest in each town choose the members.
Bagehot explains the variability of suffrage rights in England due to local power dynamics.
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