JB/044/142/001

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For the formation of a well-grounded and well-matured
judgement in relation to this subject take the body of experience
already obtained in the Congress of the Anglo-American
U.S. Take any year or any number of years: take an account
of the whole number of laws passed and rejected within that
time, and say

1. Total number of laws introduced into the Senate from
the House of Representatives, so many

2. Whereof passed, so many

3. Rejected, so many

Then take in hand the number of those rejected, &
say

4. Introduced and passed in a subsequent Session, so many.
Of these, unless Some special and adequate reason to the
contrary, it ought to be assumed that they have upon the whole
been and continue to be of a beneficial nature.

5. Of those rejected, pernicious, upon the whole, upon a
present view, if any so many.

6. Of those rejected, pernicious, as above, but which had it
not been for the existence of the Senate, would, it is now supposed,
have been rejected by the Chamber of Representatives,
so many.

7. Of those rejected, deemed now, upon a maturer view of
the subject, beneficial upon the whole, so many.

Such is the plan recommended to each individual
for the formation of his own particular opinions.

Supposing the balance, in this account of aptitude,
of good and evil in all other shapes to hang exactly even,
the consideration of expense will suffice to turn it,
and the scale with the Second Chamber in it will
kick the beam.

Identifier: | JB/044/142/001 "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	142	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f11
Penner		Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1829
Marginals		Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1829
Notes public		ID Number	13927
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