Life And Letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot First Earl of Minto From 1751 to 1806
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Nothing could be more democratic than the forms, nothing more autocratic than their result. Neither unnaturally, nor unwisely in the existing condition of their country, the Corsicans used their rights to invest with supreme authority the man who had won their affections and their confidence, and except when asked to lay down their arms, or to take up their tools, their submission was complete. For the authority of this beloved and native leader was now to be substituted that of a foreign Grove...rn- ment ; and the problem to be worked was how best to adapt the constitutional forms in existence in Corsica with the exigencies of a new political situation. To give a bona fide weight to the representative body was the first object of the legislators of Orezza. The Consulta had been far too numerous to be efficient as a Legislative Assembly ; it was therefore enacted that the right of sending representatives to Parliament should be taken from the villages, and should be limited to pieves or districts, each one of which contained several villages ; ^ and that the suffrage ' This limitation of the right of representation to pievfes would scarcely have been felt as a deprivation of electoral rights, since it had been customary in many districts for the villages to make over their power to elect a representative in the Annual Consulta to the pieves, in order to avoid the extreme inconvenience to petty proprietors of abandoning their agricultural operations ; but the practice had always been con- sidered an abuse.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Nothing could be more democratic than the forms, nothing more autocratic than their result. Neither unnaturally, nor unwisely in the existing condition of their country, the Corsicans used their rights to invest with supreme authority the man who had won their affections and their confidence, and except when asked to lay down their arms, or to take up their tools, their submission was complete. For the authority of this beloved and native leader was now to be substituted that of a foreign Grove...rn- ment ; and the problem to be worked was how best to adapt the constitutional forms in existence in Corsica with the exigencies of a new political situation. To give a bona fide weight to the representative body was the first object of the legislators of Orezza. The Consulta had been far too numerous to be efficient as a Legislative Assembly ; it was therefore enacted that the right of sending representatives to Parliament should be taken from the villages, and should be limited to pieves or districts, each one of which contained several villages ; ^ and that the suffrage ' This limitation of the right of representation to pievfes would scarcely have been felt as a deprivation of electoral rights, since it had been customary in many districts for the villages to make over their power to elect a representative in the Annual Consulta to the pieves, in order to avoid the extreme inconvenience to petty proprietors of abandoning their agricultural operations ; but the practice had always been con- sidered an abuse.
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