Whatsoever shall be done
manifestly for the good of the people, and establishing the government
upon its true foundations is, and always will be, just prerogative.
The power of erecting new corporations, and therewith new
representatives, carries with it a supposition that in time the
measures of representation might vary, and those have a just right
to be represented which before had none; and by the same reason, those
cease to have a right, and be too inconsiderable for such a privilege,
which before had it. It is not a change from the present state
which, perhaps, corruption or decay has introduced, that makes an
inroad upon the government, but the tendency of it to injure or
oppress the people, and to set up one part or party with a distinction
from and an unequal subjection of the rest. Whatsoever cannot but be
acknowledged to be of advantage to the society and people in
general, upon just and lasting measures, will always, when done,
justify itself; and whenever the people shall choose their
representatives upon just and undeniably equal measures, suitable to
the original frame of the government, it cannot be doubted to be the
will and act of the society, whoever permitted or proposed to them
so to do.
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