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1824 Oct. 10
Constitutional Code. U.S.Appendix
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Ch. XI. Legislature
§. 1. Composition: House, one. U.S. Senate.

A little consideration would have taught just the contrary.
If degree and proportion must be disregarded; and substituted
to measurement the House of Lords is by position situation the seat not
of wisdom but of the opposite endowment – faith. Why? because it is with wisdom
as with any other commodity: when there is most demand for
it, there then is most of it. In the House of Lords except
with the single exception of the Kings Patron there is least demand
for wisdom. Why? because without a grain of it a man may in
that place have more of everything he likes, than elsewhere a man
can have get with all the wisdom human nature is susceptible a human kind is capable of imbuing in it.

True said the Legislators in question the English House of
Lords is bad on a variety of accounts. The Members are all located by
the King: they by the people they are undislocable, they are immensely rich, yet the
richer thy are the greedier are they are after the good gifts of which
the King is given: they are and bloated not only
with wealth but with factitious dignity. Nothing in common
with them shall our Senate Senators have. Though not
yet with the intervention of only one no more than one authority, they
are located, as the are by the people
no King have they to look to for good gifts: no
is theirs: of not more than six years is their
term of service.

All this is true to a degree but not to a sufficient degree.
What is true is The whole and full truth is – as above – that if a an office the
members are located upon the right principle, every any second
House howsoever composed is a nuisance. Of the Members of
the second House the particular interest is not so strongly opposite adverse
to the interest of the people as is the particular interest of the King,
and that of a the members of the House of Lords. It is however sufficiently
so to give a bias and constant evil tendency to his conduct,
to render him decidedly adverse to improvement in any shape,
to the of abuse in every shape; to the maximization of
official aptitude – to the minimization of delay, vexation and
expence.

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Date_1	1824-10-10	Marginal Summary Numbering	7-9
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