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1824. May 25
Constitutional CodeAppendix
Ch. Features Discarded
§. Senate
In its least mischievous and least unjustifiable form conceivable the
Second chamber is so much pure evil, in its least mischievous
form conceivable namely that in which the deputies in this chamber
a deputy if unapt might as speedily be removed as in
the First Chamber. But in this least objectionable form it has
never in any nature has it been established: the doing what the people are credited with this
Opposer Generals the people are choice be not by the people themselves but by another not of the deputies
given to those chosen by themselves. In the U.S. Congress
term of some of the peoples Deputes 2 years: of the peoples
Deputies if the peoples Deputies 6 years.
Under favour of the supposed utility of a head Chamber,
considered at a distance in a Ministry and an Aristocracy -Aristocracy
a Second Chamber the Members of which are in for life, and
not dislocable by the people nor in any way whatever dependent
upon the people comes in for a share of the , and by
at the hand of the admirers of the more popular Government loaded with the
Second Chamber is recognized as having a hundred possessing a
of him to their view.
Addendum 1824 June 23 to list of evils
Waste of time: to wit by the delivery of two sets of arguments, one in one
House – the other in the other: and both sets almost sure to be
incomplete: thus is insufficiency united with redundancy.
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