An inſpection into this table will ſupply the
place of commentaries on it. It will appear at
once that 19,000 men, living below the falls of the
rivers, poſſeſs half the ſenate, and want four
members only of poſſeſſing a majority of the houſes of
delegates; a want more than ſupplied by the
vicinity of their ſituation to the ſeat of government,
and of courſe the greater degree of convenience
and punctuality with which their members may
and will attend in the legiſlature. Theſe 19,000
therefore, living in one part of the country, give
law to upwards of 30,000 living in another, and
appoint all their chief officers executive and
judiciary. From the difference of their ſituation and
circumſtances, their intereſts will often be very
different.
3. The ſenate is, by its conſtitution, too
homogenous with the houſe of delegates. Being choſen
