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| c. it furnishes a security against improper acts of legislation, | No. LXI. | 430 |
| D. "the number of senators, and the term for which they are to be elected," considered, | 431 | |
| a. "the inconveniences which a republic must suffer from the want of such an institution," | 431 | |
| i. the security which it furnishes against improper legislation will be wanting, | 431 | |
| ii. there will be less security against the "infirmity" of faction, | 432 | |
| iii. there will be less wisdom in the legislation of such a republic, | 432 | |
| i. the importance of a knowledge of the proper mode of legislation, | 433 | |
| ii. the little attention paid thereto in America, | 433 | |
| iv. mutability in its councils from frequent changes in its members, | 433 | |
| i. the mischievous effects of such mutability, | 433 | |
| A. it forfeits the respect and confidence of other nations, | 434 | |
| B. by multiplying laws "it poisons the blessings of liberty," | 434 | |
| C. by affecting the market-price of property it gives the sagacious and the rich an undue advantage over the industrious and uninformed poor, | 435 | |
| D. it checks extended improvements and enterprise, | 435 | |
| E. it diminishes the attachment and reverence of the People, | 435 | |
| v. "the want of a due sense of National character," | LXII. | 436 |
| vi. "the want of a due responsibility in the government to the People," | 437 | |
| vii. the want of a defence to the People against their own temporary errors and delusions, | 438 | |
| i. objection, that a widely spread People is not subject to such errors and delusions, answered, | 439 | |
| b. "history informs us of no long-lived republic which had not a senate," | 439 | |
| i. the difference between the ancient republics and the United States, | 440 | |
| i. Athens referred to, | 441 | |
| ii. Carthage referred to, | 441 | |
| iii. Sparta referred to, | 441 | |
| iv. Rome referred to, | 441 |
