Robert Yates(?), a non-signing Delegate to the Constitutional Convention, using the penname “Brutus,” publishes an anti-federalist essay, arguing against ratification of the proposed Constitution for the united States as there is provision for the House of Representatives to grow with that of the Electorate.  In paragraphs 7 and 13 he writes,

       The first important object that presents itself in the organization of this government, is the legislature.  This is to be composed of two branches; the first to be called the general assembly [House of Representatives], and is to be chosen by the people of the respective states, in proportion to the number of their inhabitants, and is to consist of sixty five members, with powers in the legislature to encrease [sic] the number, not to exceed one for every thirty thousand inhabitants. …

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       … It will literally be a government in the hands of the few to oppress and plunder the many.  You may conclude with a great degree of certainty, that it, like all others of a similar nature, will be managed by influence and corruption, and that the period is not far distant, when this will be the case, if it should be adopted; for even now there are some among us, whose characters stand high in the public estimation, and who have had a principal agency in framing this constitution, who do not scruple to say, that this is the only practicable mode of governing a people, who think with that degree of freedom which the Americans do—this government will have in their gift a vast number of offices of great honor and emolument.

       NOTE: Although the identity of “Brutus” is not known for sure, many scholars believe him to have been Robert Yates, an Associate Justice of the New York Supreme Court.

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