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" I venture to say that every man who is not presumably incapacitated by some consideration of personal unfitness or of political danger is morally entitled to come within the pale of the Constitution. "
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 272
1865
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Victorian People: A Reassessment of Persons and Themes, 1851-67

Asa Briggs - 1975 - 368 pages
...that "every man who is not presumably incapacitated by some consideration of personal unfitness or political danger, is morally entitled to come within the pale of the constitution." This was far from a revolutionary speech, and it simply expressed Gladstone's view that the question...
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History Society Church

Derek Beales, Geoffrey Best - 2005 - 352 pages
...Ibid., fo. 222 (Manning to Gladstone, 24 October 1864). See also fo. 232 (22 December 1864). fitness or of political danger is morally entitled to come within the pale of the constitution'.1" Manning wrote 'I have no fear of extended suffrage, but I have of the tone in which...
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The Grand Old Man: Or, The Life and Public Services of the Right Honorable ...

Richard Briscoe Cook - 1898 - 620 pages
...that every man who is not presentably incapacitated by some consideration of personal unfitness or political danger, is morally entitled to come within the pale of the constitution." This declaration was the first note sounded in a conflict which, twelve months later, was to cost Mr....
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The Transatlantic Persuasion: The Liberal-Democratic Mind in the Age of ...

Robert Lloyd Kelley - 1990 - 492 pages
...say that every man who is not presumably incapacitated by some consideration of personal unfitness or of political danger is morally entitled to come within the pale of the Constitution."2 The sensation these words caused was extraordinary. He was a leading figure in a government...
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A Moralist in and Out of Parliament: John Stuart Mill at Westminster, 1865-1868

Bruce L. Kinzer, Ann Provost Robson, John Mercel Robson, John M. Robson - 1992 - 342 pages
...say that every man who is not presumably incapacitated by some consideration of personal unfitness or of political danger, is morally entitled to come within the pale of the 24 For a fuller discussion see Ann P. Robson, "Introduction," Newspaper Writings [AW], CW, vol. XXII,...
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William Ewart Gladstone: Faith and Politics in Victorian Britain

David Bebbington - 1993 - 292 pages
...the subject. He declared that "every man who is not presumably incapacitated by some consideration of political danger is morally entitled to come within the pale of the Constitution." His language, deliberately opaque, was misunderstood. He was thought, even by Palmerston, to be saying...
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Britain 1750 to 1900

John Child - 1995 - 102 pages
...weren't interested in side benefits. A Every man who is not incapacitated by some personal unfitness or political danger is morally entitled to come within the pale of the constitution. Gladstone's attitude to the vote in 1864. B His virtue, prudence, intelligence and frugality entitle...
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English Historical Documents, 1833-1874

David Charles Douglas, George Malcolm Young, W. D. Handcock - 1996 - 1050 pages
...say that every man who is not presumably incapacitated by some consideration of personal unfitness or of political danger is morally entitled to come within the pale of the Constitution. Of course, in giving utterance to such a proposition, I do not recede from the protest I have previously...
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Britain in the Nineteenth Century

Howard Martin - 1996 - 422 pages
...say that every man who is not presumably incapacitated by some consideration of personal unfitness or political danger, is morally entitled to come within the pale of the constitution. WE Gladstone in the debate on Baines's Reform Bill, 1 1 May 1 864. However much Gladstone qualified...
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The Two Mr. Gladstones: A Study in Psychology and History

Travis L. Crosby - 1997 - 336 pages
...say that every man who is not presumably incapacitated by some consideration of personal unfitness or of political danger is morally entitled to come within the pale of the Constitution."76 He hastened to add that there should be no "sudden, or violent, or excessive, or intoxicating...
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