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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"