ave a seat.

But as the colony increases, the public concerns will increase
likewise, and the distance at which the members may be separated, will
render it too inconvenient for all of them to meet on every occasion as
at first, when their number was small, their habitations near, and the
public concerns few and trifling. This will point out the convenience
of their consenting to leave the legislative part to be managed by a
select number chosen from the whole body, who are supposed to have the
same concerns at stake which those who appointed them, and who will act
in the same manner as the whole body would act, were they present. If
the colony continues increasing, it will become necessary to augment
the number of the representatives, and that the interest of every part
of the colony may be attended to, it will be found best to divide the
whole into convenient parts, each part sending its proper number; and
that the ELECTED might never form to themselves an interest separate
from the ELECTORS, prudence will point out the propriety of having
elections often; because as the ELECTED might by that means return and
mix again with the general body of the ELECTORS in a few months, their
fidelity to the public will be secured by the prudent reflection of not
making a rod for themselves. And as this frequent interchange will
establish a common interest with every part of the community, they will
mutually and naturally support each other, and on this (not on the
unmeaning name of king) depends the STRENGTH OF GOVERNMENT, AND THE
HAPPINESS OF THE GOVERNED.

Here then is the origin and rise of government; namely, a mode rendered
necessary by the inability of moral virtue to govern the world; here
too is the design and end of government, viz. freedom and security.
And however our eyes may be dazzled with show, or our ears deceived by
sound; however prejudice may warp our wills, or interest darken our
understanding, the simple voice of nature and of reason will say, it is
right.

I draw my idea of the form of government from a principle in nature,
which no art can overturn, viz. that the more simple any thing is, the
less liable it is to be disordered; and the easier repaired when
disordered; and with this maxim in view, I offer a few remarks on the
so much boasted constitution of England. That it was noble for the
dark and slavish times in which it was erected, is granted. When the
world was overrun with tyranny the least r