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In order further to illustrateAs a means of casting some further light on the drift of the above remarks I cannot forbear attempting to give a throwing together a few hints
short sketch after a manner somewhata little more methodical ofconcerning the principal points of attention to be kept
in view in the framing of a Qualification-Law. The short digression I shall have occasion to make
for this purpose will be the more pardonable, as the topic of Qualification is one that occurrs in many
different places of the Statute-Book, in some of which not a little depends upon the means in which
it is handled.

A certain rank, or a certain property in the person, one or other or both together (for the discrimination
is seldom very accurately performed) is assumed as the standard of his fitness. Hereupon
it becomes one object, that the door be not open to any who fall short of that standard; another, that
it be not short against any who come up to it. of the powers of the office is what is
apprehended in the first case: non-user thro' want of persons to fill it is the danger in the latter:
and this a danger which one sees must be in the direct ratio of the number of persons required to fill the
office, & in the inverse ratio of the extent of place within which qualified persons can be sought for

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