Robert Yates(?), a non-signing Delegate to the Constitutional Convention, using the penname “Brutus,” publishes an anti-federalist essay, further 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 two, four and six he writes,

       … However fair an appearance any government may make, though it may possess a thousand plausible articles and be decorated with ever so many ornaments, yet if it is deficient in this essential principle of a full and just representation of the people, it will be only like a painted sepulcher—For, without this it cannot be a free government. …

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       … The firmest security against this kind of improper and dangerous influence, as well as all other, is a strong and numerous representation: in such a house of assembly, so great a number must be gained over, before the private views of individuals could be gratified that there could be scarce a hope of success.  But in the foederal [sic] assembly, seventeen men are all that is necessary to pass a law.  It is probable, it will seldom happen that more than twenty-five will be requisite to form a majority. …

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       … The people of this state will have very little acquaintance with those who may be chosen to represent them. …

       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.

       [restored 9/27/2021]