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1830. Sept. 18.
J.B. to France against Peers
Letter II against Peers
+ 61. Minority Preponderant
Retain the Second Chamber,
minority overrules
majority – the smaller
minority the smaller
the number in the
Second Chamber sufficient
to make a
house.
+ 62 Minority preponderant
Test of rectitude majority
of votes. Measure
of security for rectitude,
the ratio of the
majority to the minority.
+ 63 Minority preponderant
Exceptions excepted this
is unavoidably admitted.
+ 64. Minority preponderant
That this is true seen
at first glance not so
the degree of force
in which it operates
against a Second
Chamber.
+ 65 Minority preponderant
Win first 500 – in
Second 5, 4 may carry
it against 501.
+ 66 Minority preponderant Arguments
Reason failing arguments
for second Chamber drawn
from imagination.
1. Mechanical argument
– Equiponderance
desirable – Balance
argument – See-saw
argument.
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