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4608. LEGISLATURES, Size of.—[further continued] .

Render the [Virginia] legislature a desirable station by lessening the
number of representatives (say to 100) and
lengthening somewhat their term, and proportion
them equally among the electors.—
To Archibald Stuart. Washington ed. iii, 315. Ford ed., v, 410.
(Pa., 1791)