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1830
Const. Code

§ Second Chamber

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

In a new-established government the demand
both for new arrangements and the correction of existing
old ones old & new is in the utmost at its maximum state of urgency: the
Second Chamber a perpetual drag upon the wheel impedes
the vehicle to every instant of its course. By the intervening
delays & 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 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 judgement grounded as on it
been accumulating.

In the Second Chamber the number of the
Members has in almost every instance been less than
in the first, thus the minority judgement & will of the lesser is made to over-rule
that of the greater number. And for what reason?
Is it that those placed in the Second and contrarily controlling are wiser than
those in the more active Chamber: the first Chamber
then is that in which they should have been
located: & this thus the one evil of instead of
being stopped after it has shown itself would
have been prevented from showing itself.

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Date_1	1830	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	044	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	118	Info in main headings field	const. code
Image	001	Titles	second chamber
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f44
Penner		Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	13903
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