1819 Aug. 26

Fallacies Ch | | Cause & Obstacle Confounders

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2.1 Effect national prosperity

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It being impossible that his will should ultimately take effect in spite of the will of the people, iif a choice were necessary to be made of one to the exclusion of the other, the power of temporary stoppage could perhaps be with less inconvenience be placed in the hands of a second Assembly than in the hands of a single person. The reason is - the so much stronger and impressive sense of responsibility and consequently binding foce that has place in this case when compared with the other. The want of a /the/ temporary veto - suppose a manifest mischief to have had place - how come you to suffer this law to pass without observation? is a question which any one /his constitutent/ might at all times be putting to the Governor, and against this reproach he would no where be able to find shelter. But in the case of the Assembly Why thus cast the reproach upon me? I was led astray by the rest.

The people, how is it that their interest can be served, by the lodgment of the power in the hands of an interest opposite to their own? Such is the problem which the defenders of the Constitution in its present over detriorating state have to solve.