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1590. CONGRESS, Size of.—

Our present federal limits are not too large for good government,
nor will the increase of votes in
Congress produce any ill effect. On the contrary,
it will drown the little divisions at


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present existing there.—
To Archibald Stuart. Washington ed. i, 518. Ford ed., iv, 188.
(P. Jan. 1786)