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fact on the more wise man and the most competent. In the meantime, it is as a matter
of done elected by the trial I have not end-respectfully assigned to
as the calculation of noses; and, besides, from a law not writing anymore
tiing that some in the Statute Book, that calculation of noses is with us
him located. In the other words, when it comes to the choice of ours
legislators, reducing provincialism to a system we make the places
numerical majority supreme, and some to which one is considered competent
you legislate. He can do what, even if from common knowledge he is incompetent
or unworthy of trust in every other ability. Location becomes so the
fortitude of the mean, the sure avenue to office of the second-and
mediocre man,--him who desires to enjoy his/her usual action a small
brief authority, to also have him a taste of the public life. In this
you respect our American system it is, I submit, openly and incomparably
inferior to the system of parliamentary election that exists in Gran
Britain, opens to the serious criticism. In Great Britain the public man
it looks for wherever the constituency he can find him/it; or the constituency
it looks for wherever his/her representative recognizes him/it. The present Spring
Minister of Great Britain, it for example represents a small Scottish
constituency where he never resided, but from that he was chosen more
what twenty years ago, and through that he consecutively has since then
remained in the public life. On the other hand you look to I waste him/it and
the extravagance of the system now and traditionally in use with us. To get
in the public life a man not only has to be in understanding with the majority of
the citizens of the place in which him alive, but he has to continue
both in understanding with that majority; or, to some election as the Mr. Cannon
in the election solo kept, where for some momentary cause a the majority of his
neighbors in the place in which him alive you/they can fail to sustain him to it,
it has to go to retirement. I am not able here you widen on this theme, vital as me