“Any person chosen Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, Councillor,
_Senator_, or _Representative_, and accepting the _trust_,
shall, before he proceed to execute the duties of his _place_
or _office_, make and subscribe the following declaration.”[293]
Here the _place_ or _trust_ of a _Senator_ or _Representative_ is
called an _office_. And this same use of these terms, as synonymous,
and applicable to the post of _Senator_ or _Representative_, is
continued:--
“Every person chosen to either of the places or
_offices_ aforesaid [meaning the _offices_ of Governor,
Lieutenant-Governor, Councillor, _Senator_, or
_Representative_] … shall, before he enters on the discharge
of the business of his place or _office_, take and
subscribe,”[294] &c.
The authority of New Hampshire is like that of Massachusetts. Her
Constitution declares:--
“All power residing originally in, and being derived from, the
people, all the magistrates and _officers_ of government are
their substitutes and agents, and at all times accountable to
them.”[295]
Here the word “officers” obviously means the _substitutes_ and _agents_
of the people. But who are substitutes and agents of the people more
than _Senators_?