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A little consideration would have
thought just the contrary. If degree and proportion
must be disregarded: and decision substituted to
measurement, the House of Lords is by position the
seat not of wisdom, but of the opposite endowment
folly. Why? because it is with wisdom, as with
any other commodity: where there is most demand
for it, there there is most of it. In the House of
Lords, with the single exception of the King's Palace,
there is least demand for wisdom. Why? because,
without a grain of it, a man may, in that
place, have more of every thing he likes, that else
where a man can get, with all the wisdom a human
head is capable of containing in it.

True, said the Legislature in question
the English House of Lords is bad on a variety of
accounts. The members are all located by the King: by
the people they are undislocable: they are immensely
rich: yet, the richer they are, the greedier they are often
the good gifts of which the King is given: they are
pampered and bloated, not only with wealth, but
factitious dignity. Nothing in common with them
shall our Senators have. Though not immediately
named, yet, with the intervention of no more than
one intermediate authority, they are located, as the
representatives are, immediately by the people:
no King have they to look to for good gifts: no
undislocabilities is theirs: not more than years
is their term of Service.

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Identifier: | JB/044/155/001 "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	155	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c5 f37 / c6 f38
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks	b&m 1829
Marginals		Paper Producer	arthur moore; richard doane
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1829
Notes public		ID Number	13940
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