ABSTRACT
When he turned his attention to remedying these abuses through the electoral system he found it too riddled with corruption. Initially outraged by the bribing and treating of electors, he increasingly widened his demands for reform to ensure a parliament uncorrupted by bribery and improper inuence. His diagnosis of the country’s ills therefore rested heavily upon the blame he placed upon those in power who, in their various ways, had subverted an otherwise sound and healthy country, by corrupting its political institutions, its nances and its social relations.
