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in any ordinary country - where
the proportion of married men is
fairly even throughout - the simplest
basis is population. Electoral
districts are divided according to
the census, before the registration of
votes takes place. This is the principle
of our own Franchise Act e.g. the one
of 1885. But my point is that
the Liberals have always declaimed
against the principle, and sought the
reform of one vote, one value, so
they are "estopped", as we say in law,