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| | UCL, Bentham project, Journal of Bentham Studies |
 | | In 1807 Place had led the campaign to elect Sir Francis Burdett to Parliament for the constituency of Westminster, and continued to groom radical candidates for that constituency for twenty years. |
 | | The work advocated universal male suffrage, equal electoral districts, payment of MPs, and the secret ballot, but when these reforms were presented to the House of Commons in 1818 by one of Place’s radical Westminster MPs, Francis Burdett, not a single Member of Parliament voted for them. |
 | | In fact Place and Romilly continued their acquaintance, and in 1818 Samuel Romilly was elected MP for Westminster. |
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