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1824 Oct. 8
Constitutional CodeCh. VI Legislature
§. 1. Composition: or House, one

Rationale

II. Good effects none
Good effects ascribed or ascribable to the Two-House System
are as follows
1. Remedy against precipitation

In this case as in the case of the articles on the evil
side, the alledged evil is here matter of presumption of actually existing: sensible
evil, not particle is here adduced does the objection observation adduce.

But the ground of this presumption what is it? where
is it to be found? In the principal thence by the supposition, The members of the large and Leading
House are by the favour supposition so apt that none more apt
are to be found anywhere: in with this aptitude is
the precipitation in question whatsoever it be. In a state of dependance
on the good opinion of their Constituents they are all of
them, all of them in every class on every occasion they exposed to the course of
the Public Opinion Tribunal.+
+ Note here or before this was dependance was not in the intention of those who
framed the Ch. 1. Senate.
In the opposition of their veto – the
Electors in th their electoral capacity – the Electors in their capacity
of members of the Public Opinion Tribunal would on every occasion in numbers
they as great as they themselves choose to make them apply their
veto or their drag on a direction conformable to the universal
– the legitimate interest; the members of the other the smaller
House would be on every occasion acting under the temptation
to apply in furtherance of a their particular – their sinister interest.
For avoidance of evil in this and all other shapes
to afford facility and thereby encouragement to the interposition interference
of the people at large would have been the direct and most
promising course: the other of a veto bar and a drag on the hands
of the smaller assembly has no presumption to recommend it.

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Date_1	1824-10-08	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	037	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	364	Info in main headings field	constitutional code
Image	001	Titles	rationale
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1824
Marginals		Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1824
Notes public		ID Number	11579
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