They have no profitable appointments, but a mere payment of daily wages, such as are scarcely equivalent to their expences, so that having no chance for great places and enormous salaries or pensions, as in some countries, there is no briguing or bribing for elections.
Franklin highlights the lack of lucrative positions for elected officials, reducing corruption.
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