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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
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