equally with the worst into this Limbus Patrum. Their bottoms are supposed foul, and they must go into dock to be refitted. Every man who has served in an assembly is ineligible for two years after. Just as these magistrates begin to learn their trade, like chimney-sweepers, they are dis|qualified for exercising it. Superficial, new, petu|lant acquisition, and interrupted, dronish, broken, ill recollection, is to be the destined character of all your future governors. Your constitution has too much of jealousy to have much of sense in it. You consider the breach of trust in the representative so principally, that you do not at all regard the ques|tion of his fitness to execute it.
This purgatory interval is not unfavourable to a faithless representative, who may be as good a can|vasser as he was a bad governor. In this time he may cabal himself into a superiority over the wisest and most virtuous. As, in the end, all the members of this elective constitution are equally fugitive, and exist only for the election, they may be no longer the same persons who had chosen him, to whom he is to be responsible when he solicits for a renewal of his trust. To call all the secondary electors of the Commune to account, is ridiculous, impracticable, and unjust; they may themselves have been de|ceived in their choice, as the third set of electors, those of the Department, may be in theirs. In your elections responsibility cannot exist.
The legislators who framed the antient republics knew that their business was too arduous to be ac|complished with no better apparatus than the me|taphysics of an under-graduate, and the mathe|matics
