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1830. Sept. 15.
J.B. to France against Peers
Letter II against Peers

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1 Complication
In law whatsoever is needless
is mischievous.

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2. Onus on Defenders
If any use in Second Chamber
let its defenders produce
it – silence a confession
of inutility.

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3 Hereditariness bad.
Should a Second Chamber
be hereditary? this exis
presupposes one ought to exist
per J.B. it ought not –
any addition to representative
body worse
than useless.

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4. Prejudice from England
Second Chamber begotten
by sinister interest, prejudice
– &c.

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5. Prejudice from England.
In England this body seen
to exist together with
less oppression and depredation
and greater
prosperity.

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6 Causes &c. undistinguished.
Efficient causes – cooperating
causes – obstacles – uninfluencing
circumstances –
Analyse this heap and give
to each circumstance
its place – few competent
to it.

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7. Prejudice from England
In England two houses.
A foreigner would call
the H. of Lords the Second;
because business is commenced
in Commons.

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8 Prejudice from England
According to order of time.
Lords first – Commons created in
Hen. 3's reign – called Lower H.

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9. Prejudice from England
Prosperity of the whole every
where proportioned to
power of the people's deputies,
not of the rich few.

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10. Prejudice from U.S.
American States (offsets from
England) – cause of form
of government imitation.

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1. Evil 1 Delay
I. Class 1. Unsinister evils.

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2. Evil 2. Frustration
1. Loss of benefit of measures
only to be effected by a
certain time, which is
consumed by reference
to Second Chamber.

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3. Good, none.
What good can come from
Second Chamber? The first
being (suppose) the adequate
expression of the
apt people's will, the
Second cannot be more
apt.

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4. Good none. Precipitation improbable.
Fear of precipitation
ungrounded.

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1. Minority preponderant
For delaying a useful
measure small number
sufficient. This danger
unavoidable. Majority
should prevail,
but members-silencing
law incompatible
with nature of the
institution.

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3. Evil, pure
Pure evil in several shapes
the result of it.

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4 Delay of all in the lump
1. Evil from mere existence
of an additional
body, delay of aggregate of business.

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5 Delay without discussion
Evil great from want
of time for discussions.

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6 Learn effect from U.S.
Calculation of evil from
delay would be beneficial
– might be derived from
history of U.S. Congress.

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In this history might be
seen beneficial laws
– here matter of arithmetic
to compute the
delay:– advantages from
bills thrown out.

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8 Evil from Revellry. Reval. Comes.
2. Evil from disputes
about respective powers.
Business thereby delayed.

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9 Complication
3. Complication – & concomitant
evils:– divided into
1. Uncognoscibility.
2. Unintelligibility.
When Mischievous
whatsoever is useless

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Date_1	1830-09-15	Marginal Summary Numbering	[[marginal_summary_numbering::67 [or] 1 - 76 [or] 10, 77 [or] 1 - 80 [or] 4, 81 [or] 1, 82 [or] 3 - 88 [or] 9]]
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