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Updated: June 21, 2025
The 'venal wretches' were the lucky franchise-holders in rotten boroughs. The 'Friends of the People' in 1793 made the often-repeated statement that 154 individuals returned 307 members, that is, a majority of the house.
The framers of the Constitution, chief among whom was Prince Ito, naturally took care not to make its provisions too liberal. A bicameral system was adopted. In the eyes of party politicians this property qualification was much too high; it restricted the number of franchise-holders to 460,000 in a nation of nearly fifty millions.
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