Mr. hIADISON. The necessity of a General Goyernment supposes that the State Legislatures will sometimes fail or refuseto consult the commoninterest at the expense of their local convenienceor preiu diccs The policy of referring the appointment of the HoRepto the people, and not to the Leyislatures of the States suppones that the result ml be somewhatinfluence byt omode. This view of the question seems to decido that the Legislatures of the States ought not to have the uncon trolled right of regulating the times. places and manner of holding elections. It wasim possibleto foresee all the abuses that might bemadeo the discretionary power. Whether the electors should vote by ballot or viva coco: should assemble at this place or that place;shouldbe divided into districts or all meet at one place: should all votefor all the Representatives or all in a district vote for a number allotted to the district these and many other points would depend on the Legislatures and might materially affect the appointments. Whonevor tho state Legislatures had I. favorite measure to carry. the would take care so to mold their regulations as to over the candidates they wished to succeed. Besides. the inequality of the representation in the Legislatures of particular States would producep like inequality in their Representation in the national Legislature. asit was presumable that the counties having the power in the former case would secureit to themselves in the latter. What danger could there be in giving a controlling power to the national Legislature? Of whom was it to consist] 1st. of a conato.to be chosen by the State Legislatures. If the latter. therefore. could be trusted. their representatives could not be dangerous. 2ndly, of Representatives electod by the same people who elect the State Legislatures. Surely.then. if contidence is due to the latter, it must be due to the former. It seemedas improperin principle. though it might be less inconvenient in practice. to give to the State Legislatures this great authority over the election of the Representatives of the people in the general Legislature. asit would beto give to the latter a like power over the election of their representatives in the State Legislature. “