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[xxxviii. 206] 1822 June 18
[xxxviii. 206]

1822 June 18

Economy etc Rationale

Ch.6 Legislative

Legislators many - why

1. Supreme legislative why in many, not in one.

1. Inaptitude opposite to appropriate moral aptitude extreme and in the Supreme Constitutive no adequately prompt terminative remedy to it

2. In one, security for adequate attention none.

3. Published justification (say rationale) none.

4. All-comprehensive evidence of facts serving as grounds of operation, none.

5. Debates none, auditors, members of Public opinion Tribunal, none. Reports of debates none.

5. Inconvenience of Elector's attendance maximized, if voting were all at one place.

6. Perceptible effect of each Electors vote too small to pay for the trouble.

7. So great the importance of the office, and the power of the one functionary - contest violent enough to produce civil war.

8. Time in office, if long, would afford power enough to make it longer and longer, till it became for life: if short, Elections will be proportionably frequent.

9. No assurance of all comprehensive information of the particular interests of all districts, or equal supports given to each.
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