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1824. Oct. 8
Constitutional Code or U.S.

Rational

Those principle those general observations on the Two House
System being for the case of that political
State in which being into practice it is established upon
a less objectionable footing than in any other. state brought
to view. This is the case of the Congress of a General Government of the Anglo American United States
with its first House the House of Representatives, and its Second
House the Senate.

Consider it fact in respect of those evil effects which are essential belong to the
to essence of the system, and are inseparable from it not engrossed
upon it by accident.

1. Evil effect the first. Consumption of functionaries efficient time.
This evil though not as above not the most sensible sensible is an indisputable
and altogether serious one.

In the business of the more efficient House – so much time
is occupied by debates, that many much good Legislation which
in no small quantity is in contemplation is continually in arrears
and put off time after time for want of the time necessary to carry
it through in that House. This quantity of Debate has had for its
cause the appropriate active aptitude of public men in that situation
in relation to the faculty of extempore speaking – the encrease
in the numbers of men so gifted and in the quantity of discourse
which under those circumstances each is and at the
same time desirous to bring forth. Already has this aptitude encreased risen
to such a height that the retardation produced by it has been an
object of universal observation. Setting aside then the Second House,
here in the first House is a retardation the existence of which and
the evil effects of it are universally acknowledged and in a growing
state. But when a project of law has gone through this House
it then has to make its way through the Second House, where the
same ever encreasing evil awaits it: and supposing it to escape
the bar bar which may thus be set up against it, then again it has to make
its way a second time through the first House.

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Date_1	1824-10-08	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-4
Box	044	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	066	Info in main headings field	constitutional code or us
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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