In the next place, as each representative will be chosen by a greater number of citizens in the large than in the small republi
c, it will be more difficult for unworthy candidates to practice with success the vicious arts by which elections are too often carried; and the suffrages of the people being more free, will be more likely to center in men who possess the most attractive merit and the most diffusive and established characters. This passage from the Federalist Paper Number 10 refers to the need for
