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 be admitted, cannot be elected, and the votes given to a man ineligible being given in vain, the highet number for an eligible candidate becomes a majority.

thee concluions, as to mot moral, and to all political petitions, many objections may be made. The perpetual ubject of political diquiition is not abolute, but comparative good. Of two ytems of government, or two laws relating to the ame ubject, neither will ever be uch as theoretical nicety would deire, and therefore neither can eaily force its way againt prejudice and obtinacy; each will have its excellencies and defects, and every man, with a little help from pride, may think his own the bet.

eems to be the opinion of many, that expulion is only a dimiion of the repreentative to his contituents, with uch a tetimony againt him as his entence may comprie;