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1823. March 9
Constitut. Code. III. Reason-giving part

As to appropriate active aptitude, appropriate aptitude in
this form has no application to the branch of power here in
question. For To the contributing by the to far as the aptitude
possible to in this way to the choice of the most apt
of all obtainable delegates in respect of all the elements of appropriate
aptitude taken together no portion of such aptitude as contradistinct
from the intellectual aptitude above spoken of is
either necessary or contributory: bodily infirmity out of the question
every individual whatsoever is alike in an equal degree apt and competent to that
the performance of that eminently most simple operation by which a
vote is delivered.

True it is that on the part of the possessors of legislative
power as well as the authority as also as on the part of the possessors of executive
power, active appropriate active aptitude is an essential ingredient in the composition of the aggregate of appropriate aptitude:
but its nature of these is the species or branch of power
in question in the present instance.

So much for reason grounded on the general structure
and disposition of human nature. Now as to particular
experience.

The class of person the description of which comes the
nearest to that of the class in whom by this book the supreme
constitutive power authority is conferred are the classes of persons by
whom it is respectively possessed as t under the Constitution that
has place in the Anglo-American United States: so on the
other hand the class of person to which that description of which
the description of those several classes falls in the aggregate is most opposite is the class of Monarchs: of the class of functionaries in the several communities of which they are members by whose will the absence of all constitutive power authority is supplied.
But whether the several legislatures of the several States included
in the Union be though in the aggregate taken separately or that legislature which is
composed of delegates chosen and sent by all those several States
taken together the result has at all times been such as to exhibit
in the view of the whole
civilized world, a mass
or aggregate of
appropriate aptitude in
all its branches, such
as not to have its equal
or parallel in the instance of any other independent political community in past or present times. ☞ Here in text of notes give proofs.

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Date_1	1823-03-09	Marginal Summary Numbering	15 or 5 - 16 or 6
Box	037	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	115	Info in main headings field	constitut. code iii
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