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1824 Oct. 8
Constitutional Code U.S.Appendix
Feature discarded.
Ch. VI. Legislators
§. 1. or House, one, U.S.

Rationale

4.2. Plan of location. The locators in this case – not those
by whom the Members of the House of Representatives are located
but by the Legislatures of the several States.

Of those Legislatures the Members have (it is true) for the most part had
for Electors persons in a situation in life condition not remarkably different from that
of the Electors by whom the Members of the House of Representatives
are located. Still however the immediate Electors of those Senators are persons
in a situation widely different from that of the vast majority of Electors
by whom the Representatives are located. They are men invested
with powers acting under the whole body of sinister interest and interest-begotten
prejudice attached to situations of to which power is annext: men in
whom by situation are planted interests and propensities adverse to the
interest of the great majority: and in on whom no control in the hands
of the people operates either sufficient force to controul surmount the force of those interests
and propensities. For by a member of this Senate all the evil
may be produced which his situation enables a man in that situation to produce
may be produced, and yet without any such flagrant misconduct
as can afford any probability of drawing on his Electors
– his Constituents any considerable disgrace or resentment at the
hands of the people. We acted according to the best of our judgment
if the choice be unfortunate, in no shape has profit
been derived from it by any of us. Suppose his course of action
the worst possible such would be the plea: and by whom could it
probably, by whom could it reasonably, be refuted?

Here then is a set of men induced imbued of necessity with
aristocratical propensities, selected by men in aristocratical situations,
and unavoidably acted upon with still greater force by those
same aristocratical propensities.

Identifier: | JB/044/069/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 44.
Date_1	1824-10-08	Marginal Summary Numbering	11-12
Box	044	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	069	Info in main headings field	constitutional code us
Image	001	Titles	rationale
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1822
Marginals		Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1822
Notes public		ID Number	13854
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