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 initiate, on their behalf, the proceedings necessary to obtain a new constitution. It would be, moreover, highly inconvenient, that the Parliament should be required to interpose its powers on every occasion. The principle by which such local divisions are to be constituted, separated, or reconstructed, should be settled once for all, and then applied through the constitutional exercise of the royal prerogative, as the established laws are administered through the judicial authority of the Crown.

A law under which new electoral divisions might be formed, as occasion should require, is suggested in the following outline of the fifth clause of the proposed electoral law:—