A practical question arises here, whether this rule should be applied to the whole body of population, including women, children, and unnaturalized foreigners, or to those only who exercise the electoral franchise,--in other words, to voters.
Sumner raises a practical question about whether representation should include all individuals or just voters, emphasizing the complexity of electoral representation.
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