Capitolo 48
exemplification of the consequences of a total and systematic carelessness
of this elementary proposal in to study the Senate of United States from
and through the gallery of his/her reporters. The rebate in the standards of that
body, if of aspect, the intelligence, education or character, under the
operation of the local chief physician has not been pronounced less that
frightening. The consequence and mature result of "slang-patriotism", he allows
to the curious observer an impressive object-lesson,--provincialism
meeting place to a political system; that that a French and witty and incisive writer
you/he/she has recently called the "Cult of the incompetence." Speaking of the conditions
not prevailing here but in France, this observer dice,:--her "Democracy in
its modern form chooses his' delegated in its his/her own image.... What they owe
the legislator's character to be? The very opposite one, seems
me, of the democratic legislator for him you/he/she should be well informed and
entirely deprived of prejudice." Taken as a whole, and some striking
individual exceptions separately it is those that compose the Senate of the,
The evident United States in these respects? They doesn't certainly do this way
you thrill the casual observer. What, as a body, they in increasing way fails to
you command the trust and attention it is matter of common comment. Neither it is the
you reason far to look for. It would be the same as literature of respects, science
and art, was their chosen of representatives and results they arrived through a
accounts of noses him located, with confined selection severely to
talent of house.
I am well aware of the criticism that suffered you/he/she will be passed on that that me
now the advance. Local representation through chosen by numerical majorities
inside determined confinements, geographically and mathematically fixed, it is a
so rooted system and intrenched in the sentences and traditions of the
American Community of what also to doubt his/her wisdom shows a lack
political common-sense. It in fact so a lot it doesn't resemble to no as the