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1830 Const. Code

These principles these general observations on the
Two House system being premised sake take for illustrations take sake,
the case of that political State in which being carried into practice
it is established upon a less objectionable footing than in any
other shall now be brought to view. This is the case of the Congress or the An
or General Government of the An- glo-American U.S. with its first House the H. of
Representatives, & it, Second House the Senate.

Consider it first in respect of those evil effects which
are essential to belong to the essence of the system, and are inseparable from it and not
engrafted upon it by accident.

1. Evil effect the first. Consumption of functionaries' Official time.
This evil though as above not the most simple is sensible is an indisputable
and altogether serious one.

In the business of the more efficient House so much
time is occupied by Debate, that much good Legislations which
in no small quantity is in contemplation is continually in
arrear & put off time after time for want of the time
necessary to carry it through that House. This quantity
of Debate has had for it, cause the appropriate active
aptitude of public men in that situation in relation to the
facility of extempore speaking— the encrease in the
number of the men so gifted & in the quantity of
discourse which under these circumstances each is
continually able & at the same time desirous to bring forth.
Already has this aptitude increased risen to the such a height that the
retardation produced by it has been an object of universal
admiration observation. Setting aside then the Second House, here
in the First House is a retardation the existence of
which & the evil effects of it, are universally acknowledged
and in a growing state. But when a project of law has
gone through the House, it then has to make its way through
the Second House where the same ever increasing evil
awaits it: & supposing it to escape the law which may
there be set up against it, then again it had to make its way a second time through
the First House.

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Date_1	1830	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	044	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	128	Info in main headings field	const. code
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f54
Penner	richard doane	Watermarks
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Corrections	richard doane	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	13913
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