LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

of races, of racial strains, but be careful. One bad apple stinks up the
whole barrel. Congressional votin’ systems are all superficial, well not
wholly superficial, BUT there has got to be something down under, got
to be conviction, a reality, can’t be all hoakum and shysters.
Of course you COULD put Congress on the air. Then you would know
more of what your representatives are puttin’ ON you. You could
AGAIN learn from Europe. Remember our system was set up after
careful study of anterior institutions, study of the British old system,
with hopes to improve it.
You could keep the Constitution, and under that Constitution every state
in the Union could reorganize its system of representation. Any or every
state could elect its Congressmen on trade basis. Pennsylvania, or New
Jersey, or Delaware (it might be rather difficult in the barony) but any or
every state could organize its congressional representation on a
corporate basis. Carpenters, artisans, mechanics, could have one
representative; writers, doctors, and lawyers could have one
representative. You could perfectly legally and constitutionally divide up
the representatives of any or every state on the basis of trades and
professions and the life of that state, every man in it, would gain
REPRESENTATION in Congress; and Congress would take on an
honesty and reality that no American in our time has dreamed of.
Present Congressmen are mostly so ignorant that some people have
thought it might be useful to have a bit of congressional education. Insist
on Congressmen being able to pass an exam in at least SOME of the
subject matters they are expected to vote on. That would be like Chinese
Mandarin system. Well no, that glorious exam system in China had
merits. It also presents possibilities for not workin’ perfectly. It might, I
don’t say it mightn’t be well for Congressmen to pass an exam, before
they become eligible for NOMINATION. That I would tend to be all for.
BUT I see difficulties. I think the representation by trades and profession
would be a better way out, with, if you like, DIFFERENT exams for the