In her 9th and 13th "observations", Mercy Otis Warren addresses the need for limited terms and shorter periods of service for elected officials. .
Mrs. Warren also objects, in her 11th"observation, to the proportion of the elected Representatives to the people that they represent. Specifically she said, "One Representative to thirty thousand inhabitants is a very inadequate representation".
I believe that Mrs. Warren's points are valid. .
If you consider these three points together, the possible consequences could be grave. First, if there are too few congressmen to represent the people, a great deal of the new government's power will be controlled by just a few elected officials and many of the people may never have a chance to have their voices heard by that official. Second, if an elected official is not mandated a time limit that he may stay in office and if he is allowed to remain in office for long periods without the re-affirmation of the people that he represents, then that official no longer needs to answer to the people. If that combination of circumstance occurs, the question becomes, who does that official serve, the people who elected him or his own political ambitions?.
And, if there is no possibility of re-election, there is no check over the newly established government. In other words, the members of the government will not be held responsible to the people for any of their actions.
Mrs. Warren also established the need for a provision that allows for what we know today to be the "freedom of the press" when she wrote, "There is no security in the profered system, either for the rights of conscience or the liberty of the Press: Despotism usually while it is gaining ground, will suffer men to think, say, or write what they please; but when once established, if it is thought necessary to subserve the purposes, of arbitrary power, the most unjust restrictions may take place in the first instance, and an imprimator on the Press in the next, may silence the complaints, and forbid the most decent remonstrances of an injured and oppressed people.
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