- Among thofe who fhare the repre- fentation, the Ihares are very unequal. Thus the county of Warwick, with only loo fighting men, has an equal reprefen- tation with the county of Loudon which has 1746. So that every man in War- wick has as much influence in the government as 17 men in Loudon. But left it fhould be thought that an equal interfper- fion of fmall among large counties, through the whole ftate, may prevent any danger of injury to particular parts of it, we w^ill divide it into diftrifts, and fhew the proportions of land, of fighting men, and of reprefentation in each:
Between the fea-coalt and falls of the rivers __--_-- Between the falls of the rivers and the Blue ridge of mountains Between the Bliie ridge and the Alieghaney ------ BetAveen the Alieghaney and Ohio Total Square miles.
An inrpecSion of this table will fupply the place of commentaries on it. It will appear at once that 19,000 men, living below the falls of the rivers, poflefs half the fenate, and want four members only of poflelfing a majority of the houfe of delegates; a want more than fupplied by the vicinity of their fituation to the feat of government, and of courfe the greater degree of convenience and punduality with which their members may and will attend in the legiflature. Thefe 19,000 therefore, living in one part of the coun- try, give law to upwards of 30^000 living in another, and appoint all their chief officers executive and judiciary. From the difference of their fituation and cir- cumftances, their interefts will often be very different.
- The fenate is, by its conftitution, too homogeneous with the houfe of dele- gates. Being chofen by the fame eleftors, at