This Legislature, having these personal qualifications, placing them in the rank of a privileged few, are elected upon a representative basis as unequal as the rotten-borough system of England in its most rotten days.
Sumner compares the South Carolina legislative system to the rotten-borough system of England, highlighting its inequality.
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