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1822 April 16. Revised
Rid Yourselves

Lett. 18 Relinquishmt Plan

VI.4 27 or 10.
Objections to U.S.
interests.
1. Distance vast: thence
2. Redress tardy.
3. Encrease to patronage
thence to corruptive
influence.
See above, evils from this.

VI.5 28 or 11.
Answers.
1. Distance not now
so great as between
them and Spain.
2. Redress for this no
demand but in proportion
to grievances.
In leading strings, antecedently
to mission
of Representatives to
Congress, and choice of
their own rulers, States
many: in no one,
grievance or complaint.

VI.6. 29 or 12
3. As to patronage,
patron's propensity to
encrease it, indubitable:
but so, do., of
those who pay, to decrease
it: and theirs
is the power.
Towards the pinnacle
of perfection that Government
has always
been advancing: change
always from good to
better: not as in England
&c. from bad
to worse.
Witness the new Connecticut
and New York Constitutions.

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VI 7. 30 or 13.
As to distance.
True. From distance
of so many parts comes
vastness of the whole:
from vastness, complication
in the Government;
complication in so far
as needless, source of,
because a screen to,
evil in all shapes.
But, as in all points
tendency of U.S. Government
is to melioration,
so in this. Utility of decomposition
established,
it can and will decompose
itself without difficulty:
no need of a
knife from another
hand, as in the case
of a protype.

VI.8 31 or 13(a.)
Example
Congress Senate regarded
by some as a Lord's House:
suppression projected:
supposed useless, and by
delay of good, and waste
of time and money, pernicious:
not as Anglice
sure prevention of every
thing good. Wanting knowledge
of detail, U.B. incompetent
to judge.
Only in general, where
the many are rulers
over their rulers, in favor
of a new measure, probability
of adoption is as
its utility directly: where
there is a Lord's House,
with or without a Monarchy
over it,
or rather of non-adoption probability
but certainty.

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VI.9. 31 or 13(a.)
By weakness or caprice
one man, even so situated,
may be led to
promote greatest
number's interest happiness,
even by encreasing
their power: the
majority of a number
of them, never.

VI 10 32 or 14.
Advantage, lost by separation
– say into four
parts – none: for
1. In each, Supreme
Constitutive power in
hands of many: who by war have every thing
to lose, nothing to gain:
therefore between one
another, war none –
2. Of each it is the interest
that all their neighbours
be in peace and
plenty, as being the more
useful customers and
helpers.
In the eye of each, an
invader of any such
neighbour's prosperity
will be do. of his.
So manifest this, that
in all eyes, any such invasion
will be too perilous.

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Date_1	1822-04-16	Marginal Summary Numbering	27 or 10 - 30 or 13, 31 or 13a, 32 or 14
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