The Duke of Richmond wanted universal suffrage, equal electoral districts, and annual parliaments.

Wilkes proposed to disfranchise the rotten boroughs, to increase the county constituencies, and to give members to rich, populous, trading towns--a general policy which was accepted fifty-six years afterwards.
The Constitutional Society desired frequent parliaments, the exclusion of placemen from the House, and the increase of the county representation.

Burke uniformly refused to give his countenance to any proposals such as these, which involved a clearly organic change in the constitution.

He confessed that he had no sort of reliance upon either a triennial parliament or a place-bill, and with that reasonableness which as a rule was fully as remarkable in him as his eloquence, he showed very good grounds for his want of faith in the popular specifics.

In truth, triennial or annual parliaments could have done no good, unless the change had been accompanied by the more important process of amputating, as Chatham called it, the rotten boroughs.