Great stress was laid on Rotation in the elections to both.

"There cannot," said the petitioners, "be a union of the interests of a whole nation in the Government where those that shall sometimes govern be not also sometimes in the condition of the governed"; and hence they proposed that annually a third part of each of the two Houses should wheel out of the House, not to be re-eligible for a considerable period, and their places to be taken by newly elected members.

Thus every third year the stuff of each House would be entirely changed .-- Not content with petitioning Parliament, the Harringtonians disseminated their ideas vigorously through the press.

_A Discourse showing that the spirit of a Parliament with a Council in the intervals is not to be trusted for a Settlement, lest it introduce Monarchy_, was a pamphlet of Harrington's, published July 28; another, published Aug.

31, was entitled _Aphorisms Political_, and consisted of a series of brief propositions: e.g.