Universal Suffrage

licentiousness

lacking legal or moral restraints; Liberty, rightly understood, is an inestimable blessing, but liberty without wisdom, and without justice, is no better than wild and (savage) licentiousness.

propensity

a natural inclination; A stable senate, exempted from the influence of universal suffrage, will powerfully check these dangerous propensities, and such a check becomes the more necessary.

conducive

encouraging; helping to bring about; establish such a government as they deemed best calculated to secure the rights and liberties of the good people of the state, and most conductive to their happiness and safety

despoil

抢劫 can the mobs traverse our immense territory, and invade the farms, and despoil the property of the land holders?

mob

暴民; It may be that mobs will occasionally be collected, and commit depredations in a great city, but, can the mobs traverse our immense territory, and invade the farms, and despoil the property of the landholders?

savage

残暴的; Liberty, rightly understood, is an inestimable blessing, but liberty without wisdom, and without justice, is no better than wild and (savage) licentiousness.

subsist

(v.) - to live, exist; One seventh of the population of paris at this day subsists on charity,

apprehend

To seize; to arrest; The danger which we have hereafter to apprehend, is not the want, but the abuse, of liberty...

check

stop motion; curb or restrain; A stable senate, exempted from the influence of universal suffrage, will powerfully check these dangerous propensities, and such a check becomes the more necessary.

traverse

to pass over, across, or through; can the mobs traverse our immense territory, and invade the farms, and despoil the property of the land holders?

engender

to produce, cause, or bring about; We are fast becoming a great nation, with great commerce, manufactures, population, wealth, luxuries, and with the vises and miseries that they engender

jeopardize

to put in danger; The tendency of universal suffrage, is to jeopardize the rights of property and principles of liberty