"Permit me, Sir, to add another circumstance in our colonies, which contributes no mean part towards the growth and effect of this untractable spirit. I mean their education. In no country perhaps in the world is the law so general a study. The profession itself is numerous and powerful; and most provinces it takes the lead......But all who read, and most do read, endeavor to obtain some smattering of that science.
I have been told by an eminent bookseller, that in that branch of his business, after tracts of popular devotion, were so many books as those on the law exported to the plantations. The colonies have fallen into the way of printing them for their own use. I hear they have sold nearly as many copies of Blackstone' Commentaries as in England. General Gage marks out this disposition very particularly in a letter on your table. (Gage discouraged measures of oppression of the colonies, "towards a country where every man studies law".).
"This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterious, prompt in attack, ready in defense, full of resources. In other countries, the people, more simple and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principal in government only by an actual grievance; here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principal. They augur misgovernment from a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze."
I don't think it a good idea to pack the electorate with these types of folks. You do? 