not be admitted, cannot be elected, and the votes given to a man ineligible being given in vain, the higheſt number for an eligible candidate becomes a majority.
To theſe concluſions, as to moſt moral, and to all political petitions, many objections may be made. The perpetual ſubject of political diſquiſition is not abſolute, but comparative good. Of two ſyſtems of government, or two laws relating to the ſame ſubject, neither will ever be ſuch as theoretical nicety would deſire, and therefore neither can eaſily force its way againſt prejudice and obſtinacy; each will have its excellencies and defects, and every man, with a little help from pride, may think his own the beſt.
It ſeems to be the opinion of many, that expulſion is only a diſmiſſion of the repreſentative to his conſtituents, with ſuch a teſtimony againſt him as his ſentence may
