The relative power of states, in one branch of the legislature, would consequently be affected by this ratio; and to questions of that description, few members can permit themselves to be inattentive.
This bill, as originally introduced into the house of representatives, gave to each state one member for every thirty thousand persons.

On a motion to strike out the number thirty thousand, the debate turned chiefly on the policy and advantage of a more or less numerous house of representatives; but with the general arguments suggested by the subject, strong and pointed allusions to the measures of the preceding congress were interspersed, which indicated much more serious hostility to the administration than had hitherto been expressed.
Speaking of the corruption which he supposed to exist in the British house of commons, Mr.Giles said that causes essentially different from their numbers, had produced this effect.

"Among these, were the frequent mortgages of the funds, and the immense appropriations at the disposal of the executive." "An inequality of circumstances," he observed, "produces revolutions in governments, from democracy, to aristocracy, and monarchy.

Great wealth produces a desire of distinctions, rank, and titles.

The revolutions of property, in this country, have created a prodigious inequality of circumstances.