poſed of fifty-eight ſenators, taken from the communities. As to affairs without, there is a general council, formed of all the officers of adminiſtration, and of fifty-eight ſenators choſen in the ſaid councils of the two valleys. Befides this, there are, for juſtice and police, the chamber of ſeven, and the chamber of fifteen, for the upper valley, and the chamber of eleven for the lower.
Here again are arrangements more complicated, and ariſtocratical preferences more decided, in order to counterpoiſe the democratical aſſembly, than any to be found in America, and the land amman is as great a man in proportion as an American governor. Is this a ſimple democracy? Has this little clan of graziers been able to collect all authority into one center? Are there not three aſſemblies here to moderate and balance each other? and are not the executive and judicial powers ſeparated from the legiſlative? Is it not a mixed government, as much as any in America? although its conſtitution is not by any means ſo well digeſted as ten at leaſt of thoſe of the United States; and although it would never be found capable of holding together a great nation.
