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Chapter II.
Principles to be observed in forming electoral Districts, and in determining, for each District, how many Members it shall return.
§ 1. Number of Members in House.
There seems to be no sufficient reason, a priori, for any change in this particular. It would probably be best to take 660 as the number to be generally aimed at, though holding ourselves free to modify this as circumstances might require.
§ 2. Number of electoral Districts; whether to be equal or unequal; &c.
The two extreme cases are (1) to have as many Districts as Members, each to return one Member, in which case the Districts should of course be equal; (2) to form the whole Kingdom into one District.
