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14 The Commonwealth so far thus constituted - shall it be simple (6) 3 T Letter to
Propose Constitution
Simplicity of federativeness?
or federative? Simple or made the Friend Constiative of the
time of the first Revolution, or as under the Anglo-American it was, as federative.
United States Constitution federative.
Federative I prably assume it to be: that being what you are
accustomed to, and therefore in most unexceptionable grand good proposed
disposed whether decided or no, to adopt in preference. This excepted, there is not that
reason in favour of it which has place in the case of
the Anglo-American Commonwealth. [+] The vast vastness if the </add> extent [+] The the subject
matters of Government
many there
are, as to which the
of the aggregate quantity of the territory tory belonging to those several States
renders the that sort of partial separation may matter unavoidable
and the untedexistence of a supreme government in an undivided state in the and
hand of one and the same legislatitive authority Chamber altogether inlegible unapt not
to say impracticable.
15. Supposing the government a simple one as above, still
indispensably necessary as to various local matters to an extent
more or less considerable indispensably would be a
legislative body in each one of your States. In that case Sublegislature
would be the denomination of each such local
Legislature. As to matters for the cognizance of which
such local legislatures would be recessary, and the relation
as between them and the Supreme Legislature - these points I have
taken into consideration made provision
proposed Constitutional Code. consideration has been
found in my abovementioned
NOTE
117 was attached to 118
under the heading 'J.B.
to the Belgians'
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