If, then, the representative body is a substitute for the people themselves meeting in primary assemblies, it would seem that it must be founded upon the people who compose the primary assemblies,--in other words, upon legal voters.
He argues that the representative body must be based on the legal voters who form primary assemblies.
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The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
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