CHAPTER XXX.
ARGUMENT ON PROPOSED CHANGE OF REPRESENTATION IN CONVENTION In addition to the reasons already given there are many others that might be urged against the proposed change of representation.
In the first place, the present plan is based upon the sound and stable principle upon which the Government was organized.

Representation in Congress is not based upon votes or voters, but upon population.

The same is true of the different State Legislatures.

All political parties,--or, at any rate, the principal ones,--have adopted the same system in the make-up of their State and National Conventions.

The membership of the National Convention being based upon each State's representation in Congress, the State Conventions, with perhaps a few exceptions, are based upon the representation in the State Legislatures from each county, parish, or other civil division.