It was the settlement of Upper Canada that rendered the Quebec Act of 1774 obsolete, and made necessary the Constitutional Act of 1791, which granted to the Canadas representative assemblies.

Let it be assumed, for the sake of argument, that the surplus moneys to be deposited with the States have been collected and belong to them in the ratio of their federal representative populationan assumption founded upon the fact that any deficiencies in our future revenue from imposts and public lands must be made up by direct taxes collected from the States in that ratio.

Each ward, moreover, had its own representative board, which was the equivalent of a hundred court.

When the western country was first settled, representative county government prevailed almost everywhere.

A Cambridge (Mass.) boy might, for example, say, "I live in the third precinct of the first ward, in the first Middlesex representative district, the third Middlesex senatorial district, the third councillor district, and the fifth congressional district.

We seldom realize that ours is actually what it pretends to bea representative governmentand our legislatures are extraordinarily sensitive to what the people, the politically effective people, really want.