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1824. Novr. 23d.
Constitutional Procedure Code.

Ch. VI. Legislature
§. 13. Continuation Comm<hi rend="superscript">ee

1.
Question 1. Non relocability
why? and why
thus long?

Answer. General Reasons
1. By the undiscontinued
relocability system,
good is not, in any shape,
secured: evil is in all
shapes.
By the temporary
reeligibility system,
coupled with the
Continuation Committee
System, good in all shapes
is secured or probabilized:
evil, none.

2.
2. Particular Reasons.
Proofs of the above
general positions.
In the word experience
is comprised the whole
of the good, expectable
from undiscontinued
relocability. But,
considered as proof
presumptive of the
aggregate of appropriate
aptitude, the experience

is but
attendance.

3.
3. Under the name of
experience, all the
proof of aptitude, that
is or can be secured,
is attendance: viz. at
the seat of business.
But, how uninterrupted
soever, by mere
attendance, no one of
the elements of appropriate
aptitude is
secured.

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Ch. VI. Legislature.
§. 13. Continuat<hi rend="superscript">n Committee

4.
4. As to cognitive,
judicative, and active
<hi rend="underline">aptitude, all these
depend partly upon
antecedent faculties,
natural and acquired,
partly upon
<hi rend="underline">attention. But by no
attendance can either
these faculties or
appropriate attention
be secured.</hi></hi>

5.
5. On the part of a
great majority of the
whole body,notwithstanding
the compleat
absence of appropriate
aptitude in all these
shapes, relocation will,
if the temporary
nonrelocability system be
not applied, be
preponderantly probable.

6.
6. The only mode in
which aptitude in these
shapes can publickly
manifest itself, more
especially active aptitude,
is by public
speaking; and in no
assembly containing
a hundred or more,
has a proportion of
habitual extempore speakers
so great as a fifth
or even a tenth of the
whole number of
Members, been habitually
observable.

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Ch. VI. Legislature.
§. 13. Continuat<hi rend="superscript">n Committee

7.
7. In the case of the
rest, if no offence of a
public nature has
ving been given by
speech in the Assembly,
or conduct otherwise
public, — in such Services
rendered, or even
kindness of deportment
manifested to individuals,
especially to leading
individuals, will naturally
suffice, on each occasion,
to secure relocation,
to.
To the thus apparantly,
though not really tried
man, to propose an
untried opponent,
will naturally be an
invidious and thence
hopeless proceding:
odium certain — Success
improbable.

8.
8. In whatsoever degree
in respect
of any of these
branches of aptitude,
he may not the less
be a man without
reproach: for, to no
man can it be a
matter of reproach
to be in the same
state of inaction in
which his colleagues, in
any such proportion,
are, as above, seen to be.
Non relocation w<hi rend="superscript">d
in this case be dislocation.
What, to a majority
of any body of
Electors, could be an
inducement adequate to
the obtaining adequate their
concurrence in so
harsh a measure, in so
against a man void
of offence?

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Date_1	1826-11-23	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-11
Box	038	Main Headings	constitutional code
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