...fearful of investing Congress, constituted as that body is, with ample authorities for national purposes, appears to me the very climax of popular absurdity...Could Congress exert them for the detriment of the public, without injuring themselves in an equal or greater proportion? Are not their interests inseparably...

...fearful of vesting Congress, constituted as that body is, with ample authorities for national purposes, appears to me the very climax of popular absurdity...Could Congress exert them for the detriment of the public without injuring themselves in an equal or greater proportion? Are not their interests inseparably...

...fearful of investing Congress, constituted as that body is, with ample authorities for national purposes, appears to me .the very climax of popular absurdity...with those of their constituents? By the rotation of appointment, must they not mingle frequently with the mass of citizens ? Is it not rather to be apprehended,...

...fearful of investing Congress, constituted as that body is, with ample authorities for national purposes, appears to me the very climax of popular absurdity...Could Congress exert them for the detriment of the * gee Letter to James MeHenry, gparks, ix. 12l. people, without injuring themselves in an equal or...

...fearful of investing Congress, constituted as that body is, with ample authorities for national purposes, appears to me the very climax of popular absurdity...Could Congress exert them for the detriment of the public, without injuring themselves in an equal or greater proportion? Are not their interests inseparably...

...climax of popular absurdity and madness. Could Congress exert them for the detriment of the public without injuring themselves in an equal or greater...inseparably connected with those of their constituents ?" On the contrary, he 148 GEORGE WASHINGTON feared that they would be too timid in the use of authority,...