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 or constituencies to which he presents himself,—the next step is to bring the names of all the candidates in one view before the electors. It is thus that the nation, in the greatest of all national actions, will adopt means analogous to those which have powerfully contributed to the progress of education, of art, and of science, by concentrating their productions, and submitting them all to the test of the widest comparison.

The promulgation of the names of the candidates may be regulated by the two following clauses; in which, as in prescribing all the other functions of the Registrars, their duties may be so clearly defined, that nothing be left to their discretion. Every step would be governed by the rigid impartiality of anterior and positive law.