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Part 1 The politics of religious radicalism - the Bristol lectures(1795): "Introductory address" - "Conciones ad Populum"; "The Present War" -"Conciones ad Populum"; "The lectures on revealed religion - lecture five";"the plot discovered". Part 2 The retreat from radicalism 1797-1802: thelimitations of political power (letter); recantation; "On the FrenchRevolution"; "Comparison of France and Rome"; "Once a Jacobin, always aJacobin"; the virtues of church establishments (letters); principles andprudence in politics - "The Friend"(1809-1810); property and responsibility -"A Lay Sermon" (1817). Part 5 The idea of the constitution - "Church andState" (1829). Part 6 A few late reflections - Coleridge on the 1832 ReformAct: House of Commons; government; popular representation; conduct ofminister on the Reform Bill - the multitude; ministers and the Reform Bill;disfranchisment; moral law of polarity; Professor Park - English constitution- democracy.