Arkansas Attorney General J . Winston Bryant urged the justices to reverse the state court ruling and uphold the state's " constitutional authority to encourage rotation in office of its congressional delegation ."
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An article in the " Richmond Enquirer " ( 1822 ) noted that the " long cherished " principle of rotation in office had been impressed on the republican mind " by a kind of intuitive impulse, unassailable to argument or authority ".
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Hence, by 1838, " the troubles created by legislative usurpation, demagoguery, rotation in office, and leveling to mediocrity had, in Cooper's view, reached such a point that he longed to curb the exercise of individual liberty that he equally longed to maintain ."
