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Government, while carefully avoiding any specification of the electoral body, or the mode of election, or the qualifications of the representatives. They wish to introduce an entirely new thing, but cannot get beyond the terminology appropriate to the existing régime.
The petitioners propose that the unofficial Members of Council should be chosen by the people, but they fail to say by whom, or by what means, or by what process. These are matters of detail, but the petitioners have not grasped them, and in a proposed re-construction of the Government to remedy alleged evils they were bound to state in what manner the end was to be accomplished.