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 percentage of the people have more natural inventive ability than the remaining larger percentage; a small percentage have more natural medical ability than the remaining larger percentage; a small percentage of the people have more natural educational ability than the remaining larger percentage; a small percentage of the people have more natural theological ability than the remaining larger percentage; a small percentage of the people have more natural mechanical ability than the remaining larger percentage; a small percentage of the people have more natural agricultural ability than the remaining larger percentage, and a comparatively small percentage have greater governmental ability than the remaining larger percentage.

Under the Constitution it was assumed that just as we select people with musical talent to give concerts, people with artistic talent to paint pictures, people of inventive ability to provide inventions, people of educational ability as teachers, people of theological ability as preachers, an architect to plan and supervise the construction of a building, a surgeon to perform an operation, an engineer for engineering work, just so the people would elect men of governmental ability to executive and legislative positions and permit them, in a representative capacity, to work out