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Here then to this body of men who are wise by creation
in addition to the just mentioned share in Legislative power is given
a corresponding share of administrative power: in the power of
location— in the power of patronage: the President being
endowed with the remainder. Behold now the consequence.

Number of members in this body, 40: majority requisite and
sufficient for this purpose. How then in the instance of each location
is the matter to be settled? Discussing to his as between
President and Senate as between each of these 40 Senators and
every other would be a most tedious process: in the Senate
more particularly scarcely might the whole of the official time
suffice for it. Incomparably shorter and more convenient would
have been the dividing the patronage between the two authorities.
As to the minority, to with 19, they having no power,
the trouble of consideration and discussion is a trouble
from which they may be relieved: Remain, the majority,
21: should it happens that in the collision of wills, swing
to any difference of force as between will and will,
a number more of less exceeding that of the bare
majority have been let in to a share in the mass of
good things, the difference in ultimate effect cannot
be very considerable. Patronage, to be worth any
thing must have at least an office for the subject
matter of it. Here then on the supposition of an
equitable and mutually commodious plan of
partition— here we have for each one of the majority of the
Senate (say 21) one office: together 21 offices: number
remaining for the President (this number must
unavoidably be left in blank): the number that may
actually have been agreed upon and acted upon bids
defiance to conjecture: it will have depended upon
comparative strength of will as between one side
and the other.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	044	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	152	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f3<…>
Penner		Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1829
Marginals		Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1829
Notes public		ID Number	13937
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