It was necessary on the one hand that the people should appoint one branch of the Govt. But he wished the election on the other to be so modified as to secure more effectually a just preference of merit. His idea was that the people should nominate certain persons in certain districts, out of whom the State Legislatures shd. make the appointment. He wished for vigor in the Govt., but he wished that vigorous authority to flow immediately from the legitimate source of all authority. The Legislature ought to be the most exact transcript of the whole Society.
Representation is made necessary only because it is impossible for the people to act collectively.
The opposition was to be expected he said from the Governments, not from the Citizens of the States. The State officers were to be the losers of power. The people he supposed would be rather more attached to the national Govt. There is no danger of improper elections if made by large districts. Bad elections proceed from the smallness of the districts which give an opportunity to bad men to intrigue themselves into office.