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Evil 5. 3. evil Term of Service 6 years; while for a member of the House of Representatives the term of service is no more than 2 years nor
would it be and have been more than 1 year but for the distance
from which in so large a proportion the Members would have to come.

Six years— thus long is the time given for the propensities
to swell & act operate and operate& to fasten themselves & to operate.

True it is that of the whole entire number it is not the whole
that at any part point of time has will have been thus long in the exercise of
its power. For at the end of each period of two years a third
of the members go out; inasmuch the consequence is that at every point of time
there are a third who have been in office between 4 & 6 years:
another, between 2 & 4 years, & the third, between an day &
2 years. At no time however does a man set his foot in
this situation but he finds one third of the number who
have been in it from 4 to 6 years. These having had
most experience as well as being probably most
advanced in age are with more confidence than the
rest looked to for information & guidance. To them
if the situation is agreeable to them it can scarcely
fail to appear that the term is by no means too long:
but that the longer it were the better & if there has been
any one to whom the situation has ceased to be agreeable,
he will not at present be to be found it it.

So sure as a man is in that situation so sure is
it if he be of the same mould with the general sum of
men, his propensities are of an aristocratical
nature, adverse to the interest of the greater number;
& the his conduct the correspondent to result of those same propensities.

Be this as it may, being arrived at the age of wisdom,
& choice chosen by the wisest, by the most knowing & well-informed,
wisdom is the attribute looked for at the hands of
the numbers of the Second House. Accordingly Senator
is the official appellation by which they are distinguished.

Identifier: | JB/044/132/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 44.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	044	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	132	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f58
Penner		Watermarks	b&m 1828
Marginals		Paper Producer	arthur moore; richard doane
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1828
Notes public		ID Number	13917
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