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1522. CONGRESS, Corruption and. [further continued] .

Withdrawn such a distance
from the eye of their constituents, and
these so dispersed as to be inaccessible to public
information, and particularly to that of
the conduct of their own representatives, they
will form the most corrupt government on
earth, if the means of their corruption be not
prevented.—
To President Washington, Washington ed. iii, 362. Ford ed., vi, 4.
(Pa., 1792)