nd [wm 1816]

16

Resolved

{16. That} /that/, for the due exercise of that power, as above, it is expedient

that the whole people, into what soever Electoral bodies divided should keep such

their representatives in dependence, it is necessary, that, by every Member of each

such Electoral body, the conduct of its Representative in the exercse of such his

trust, should at all times, and on all occasions, be capable of being known, and

taken into consideration, in so far as the sense of need suggests itself and the

quantity of time applicable to this purpose, permitts. -}

26. That, forasmuch as, by no power lodged in the hands of constituents, can any

dependence, on the part of the respective Representatives, be in any degree created

or maintained, except in so far as the good and evil, about to be eventually

produced, by the exercise of such power, is at all times, in the expectation of the

Representative, greater than any that can be made to accrue to him, by any other

person or persons, whose interest or supposed interest, and consequent endeavour, it

may be, to engage him in a violation of such his trust; it is accordingly necessary

that by all practicable means every Representative of the people be rendered as

compleatly exempt as possible from every such external influence.