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| justification for approval of the State system and disapproval of the Fœderal system, | No. LVI. | 400 |
| A. the doctrine is not reasonable, | 400 | |
| B. the doctrine is not admissible in its consequences, | 401 | |
| C. the doctrine is not warranted by facts, | 401 | |
| a. the British House of Commons, | 401 | |
| b. the State senators of New Hampshire, | 401 | |
| c. the State senators of Massachusetts, | 402 | |
| d. the State senators of New York, | 402 | |
| e. members of Assembly in the cities of New York and Albany, | 402 | |
| f. State representatives in Pennsylvania, | 402 | |
| g. the upper house of the Assembly of Connecticut, | 403 | |
| h. the Governor of Connecticut, | 403 | |
| i. the Governor of Massachusetts, | 403 | |
| j. the Governor of New York, | 403 | |
| k. the President of New Hampshire, | 403 | |
| iv. "the number of its members will not be augmented from time to time as the progress of population may demand," | LVII. | 403 |
| i. the provisions of the State constitutions compared with those of the proposed Constitution, | 403 | |
| ii. the practice of the State governments considered, | 404 | |
| iii. the peculiar organization of the Congress will induce watchfulness on this subject, | 404 | |
| A. the large States, in the House, can control the small ones, and compel their acquiescence, | 404 | |
| a. objection, that the Senate may object and prevent such an augmentation, answered, | 405 | |
| 1. there is no probability that the House, representing the majority of the People, could be successfully resisted, | 405 | |
| 2. the consciousness of the House being supported by right, reason, and the Constitution, will check the Senate, | 405 | |
| 3. it is not certain that a majority of the Senate would oppose such an augmentation, | 406 | |
| 4. senators from the new States will, probably, favor such an augmentation, | 406 | |
| 5. "a constitutional and infallible resource" |
