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| A. from foreign gold, | No. LIV. | 388 |
| B. from other branches of the Fœderal government, | 389 | |
| ii. "it will be too small to possess a due knowledge of the interests of its constituents," considered, | LV. | 391 |
| i. "the representative ought to be acquainted with the interests and circumstances of his constituents," considered, | 391 | |
| ii. the objects of Fœderal legislation considered, | 391 | |
| A. "a very few representatives will be very sufficient vehicles of information concerning commerce to the Fœderal councils," | 392 | |
| B. the same observations will apply to matters concerning taxation, | 393 | |
| C. they "will apply also with greater force to the case of the militia," | 393 | |
| D. nothing in the above reasons will conflict with the necessity, before referred to, for general information in the representative, | 393 | |
| iii. the experience of Great Britain referred to, | 394 | |
| iii. it will tend to the aggrandizement of the few at the expense of the many, | LVI. | 396 |
| i. this objection strikes at the root of representative government, | 396 | |
| ii. the members of the House will be elected by all classes and conditions of citizens, | 397 | |
| iii. they will be taken from all classes and conditions of citizens, | 397 | |
| iv. securities to insure their fidelity to their constituents, | 397 | |
| A. their personal character, | 397 | |
| B. the honorable position to which they will be called, | 398 | |
| C. the opportunity which will be afforded to secure honor and distinction, | 398 | |
| D. the frequent election compelling them to remember their dependence on the People, | 398 | |
| E. the measures adopted must operate on themselves as well as on the great mass of the society, | 399 | |
| v. the provisions for electing members, and their qualifications for office, similar to those of the State constitutions for State officers, | 400 | |
| vi. the relative numbers of the constituencies no |
