Look at Barras, Reubell, etc." The electoral colleges are to furnish them with the asylum they lack.

"Now is the time to elect the largest number of men of the Revolution; the longer we wait, the fewer there will be....
With the exception of some of them, who have appeared on a grand stage,...

who have signed some treaty of peace...

the rest are all isolated and in obscurity.

That is an important gap which must be filled up....