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Excerpt from Principles of Reform: Political and Legal It need hardly be observed that the title of this work is not to be understood as implying that an attempt to discuss every important question of Reform, now agitated, is to be found in the following pages. But there are certain cardinal and primary subjects, alike in politics as in law, to which Reform must first be directed, and in which it must secure success before any further advance can be made. Thus, in Politics, the great objects of Peace, Retrenchment, and Extension of the Franchise are recognized as the very motto of the party of Reform; while in Law, the simplifying of its provisions by the adoption of a Code, and the abolition of needless discrepancies between the legal systems of the several parts of the realm, are shown, by the discussions of jurists, to be the fundamental improvements to which all others are subordinate. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.