A syllabus of the lectures delivered to the senior students in the College of William and Mary, on government : ... To which is added, A discourse ... on the manner in which peculiarities in the anatomical structure affect the moral character / Printed for the university.

  • Smith, John Augustine, 1782-1865.
Date:
1817
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Credit: A syllabus of the lectures delivered to the senior students in the College of William and Mary, on government : ... To which is added, A discourse ... on the manner in which peculiarities in the anatomical structure affect the moral character / Printed for the university. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    (From one hundred to two hundred, accord- ing to circumstances, I should esteem the best number. A legislative body of this size is ra- ther cumbrous, undoubtedlj', but it is less easily bribed, or managed, as it is termed. The districts which elect should be sufficiently extensive to insure adequate talents, but at the same time so circumscribed, that the represen- tative can readily know the wishes and opinions of his constituents in the first instance, and in- form them in the second, of the views and mo- tives which have governed his conduct.) § II. The laws which emanate from represen- tatives, are more likely to be agreeable to the people, and consequently will be more cheer- fully obeyed. § III. To this obedience the people will be further prompted by the arguments and influ- ence of the representative upon his return among them. S IV. An extensive country can be better governed upon the representative system than