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Rh of fifty-eight enators, taken from the communities. As to affairs without, there is a general council, formed of all the officers of adminitration, and of fifty-eight enators choen in the aid councils of the two valleys. Befides this, there are, for jutice and police, the chamber of even, and the chamber of fifteen, for the upper valley, and the chamber of eleven for the lower.

Here again are arrangements more complicated, and aritocratical preferences more decided, in order to counterpoie the democratical aembly, than any to be found in America, and the land amman is as great a man in proportion as an American governor. Is this a imple democracy? Has this little clan of graziers been able to collect all authority into one center? Are there not three aemblies here to moderate and balance each other? and are not the executive and judicial powers eparated from the legilative? Is it not a mixed government, as much as any in America? although its contitution is not by any means o well digeted as ten at leat of thoe of the United States; and although it would never be found capable of holding together a great nation.