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Sept. 1824. Maclure Q.S.P. to J.B. ibid. on U.S. Constitution

The Senate of the U.S. as feel as the Senators of all
the individual States, being an imitation of the house of Peers
in Britain, is a separation of power without any utility, and
perhaps only protracts legislation and is the cause of
unnecessary dissensions— the senate in the federal Government
only is a check on the appointment of offices by the
president— by their confirmation being necessary and it
has been observed that they expect appointments
to ambassadorsships to be taken from amongst themselves,
as it is difficult to obtain a majority in favour of such
as have not served in their body, in consequence
of which the greatest part of the Ambassadors to
foreign nations are taken from those either
actually in the Senate or who have served in the Senate.

The encroachments by implication of the government of the
Union on the individual States have been considerable in the Judiciary
right of Chartering Banks &c. &c. and have been as yet
tolerated and submitted to party owing to the great weight
of the mercantile interest in consequence of the neutral trade,
which, commencing with the federal government, was improperly
attributed to its influence— giving it Credit for all the advantages
derived from the lucrative commerce the U.S.
carried on during the revolutionary war against France
that being now finished the States will most probably
be more tenacious of their rights and not submit
their differences to the direction of the U.S. courts,
as has been the practice till now.

It has been long the opinion of many thinking men in
the Union along with Franklin that the Senate was a useless
and perhaps a hurtful incumbrance and every day increases
the number of the party that are against Senates; so that the
probability is that the progress of civilization will lop
off that unnecessary complication of power and make
the Legislature one and indivisible.

Identifier: | JB/044/134/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 44.
Date_1	1824-09	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	044	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	134	Info in main headings field	maclure qsp to jb ibid on us constitution
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f60
Penner		Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1829
Marginals		Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1829
Notes public		ID Number	13919
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