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1824. May 25 Seen Oct. 12
Constitutional Code U.S.Appendix
Ch. Features Discarded
§. Senate

☞ First consider it in its least objectionable form: the next one after another such of its
objectionable features as have been exemplified in practice.

§ Second Chamber

In no state of things actual or imaginable is it well
adapted to its supposed purpose: neither in a new established gover
nor in an old-established government.

In a new established government the demand both for new
arrangements and the correction of existing ones old and new is
in the utmost at its maximum state of urgency: the Second chamber a perpetual
drag upon the wheel impedes the velocity every instant
of its course. By the intervening delays and formalities, the
most salutary and urgent proposed arrangements are retarded in common
with the most questionable indisputable evil in vast quantity
is established for the chance of preventing excluding that which may
be goo evil or good as it may happen.

The longer the government has been established, the less
is the demand for the supposed remedy: so much the longer
has the body of appropriate knowledge and the force of appropriate
judgment grounded in it been accumulating: the danger of
surprize and precipitation is become less and less.

In Of the Second Chamber the number of the Members
have at in almost every instance been less than in the first.
Thus the only because are in judgment and will of the lesser is made to overrule
that of the greater number. And for what reason? Is it that
in the those placed in the Second and are never then those
in the more active Chamber: the First Chamber thus is that
in which they should have been located, and thus the one evil instead
of being stopped after it has shown itself would have been prevented
from showing itself.

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Date_1	1824-05-25	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-4
Box	044	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	057	Info in main headings field	constitutional code us
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