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A little consideration would have taught just
the contrary. If degree and proportion must be disregarded; and
decision substituted to measurement the House of Lords is
by position situation the seat not of wisdom bt of the opposite endorsement – folly. Why? becasue
it is with wisdom as with any other commodity: where there
is most demand for it, there then is most of it. In the H. of
Lords with the single exception of the King's Palace there is
least demand for wisdom. Why? because without a grain of
it a man in that place have more of every thing he
likes than elsewhere a man can have get with all the
wisdom his a nature is susceptible of a human head is capable of containing in it

True said the Legislature in question the English
H. of Lords is bad on a variety of accounts. The
Members are all located by the King: they are by the people they are undislocable:
they are immensely rich; yet the richer they are the greedier
are they are after the good gifts of which the King is giver:
they are pampered & bloated not only with wealth but
with factitious dignity. Nothing in common with them shall any
our Senate Senators have. Though not immediately named yet
with the intervention of only one no more than one intermediate authority,
they are located, as the representatives are, immediately by
the people: no King have they to look to for good fits:
no undislocability is theirs: not more than six years
is their term of service.

All this is true to a certain degree but not to
a sufficient degree. What is true The whole & full truth is, as above, that of a one
House the members are located upon the right principle; any
Second House however composed is a nuisance. Of the members of
the Second House the particular interest is not so strongly opposed distantly adverse
to the interest of the people as is the interest of the particular
interest of the King, & that of a the Members of the H. of Lords.
It is however sufficiently so to give a bias & constant evail tendency
to his conduct to render him decidedly adverse to improvement
in any shape: to the removal of abuse in every shape:
to the maximization of official aptitude to the minimization
of public delay, vexation & expense.

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Box	044	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	110	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f36
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Notes public		ID Number	13895
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