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The whole number in Congress will be at least 390. Each congress to sit and to choose a President by the following method . When the Delegates are met , let a Colony be taken from the whole thirteen Colonies by lot , after which ...
The whole number in Congress will be at least 390. Each congress to sit and to choose a President by the following method . When the Delegates are met , let a Colony be taken from the whole thirteen Colonies by lot , after which ...
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It concentrates the knowledge necessary to the interest of the parts , and of the whole . It places government in a state of constant maturity . It is , as has already been observed , never young , never old .
It concentrates the knowledge necessary to the interest of the parts , and of the whole . It places government in a state of constant maturity . It is , as has already been observed , never young , never old .
Page 486
The whole expence of the federal government of America , founded , as I have already said , on the system of representation , and extending over a country nearly ten times as large as England , is but six hundred thousand dollars ...
The whole expence of the federal government of America , founded , as I have already said , on the system of representation , and extending over a country nearly ten times as large as England , is but six hundred thousand dollars ...
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