compriſe; and that if his conſtituents, notwithſtanding the cenſure of the Houſe, thinking his cafe hard, his fault trifling, or his excellencies ſuch as overbalance it, ſhould again chuſe him as ſtill worthy of their truſt, the Houſe cannot refuſe him, for his puniſhment has purged his fault, and the right of electors muſt not be violated.
This is plauſible but not cogent. It is a ſcheme of repreſentation, which would make a ſpecious appearance in a political romance, but cannot be brought into practice among us, who ſee every day the towering head of ſpeculation bow down unwillingly to groveling experience.
Governments formed by chance, and gradually improved by ſuch expedients, as the ſucceſſive diſcovery of their defects happened to ſuggeſt, are never to be tried by a regular theory. They are fabricks of
