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1830. Augt. 6-7
J.B. to France Review
☞ Aug. 7: Written this and the next page, in the
view of adding this and more to p J.B. to France: but supressed
it for the prsent or for ever, for the sake of writing and brevity, as per J.B. to Bowring of this day.
In a work entituled Constitutional Code in the
first of the three Volumes of which has been just been
the principle. of The sovereignty, of is in the people being assumed as
the fundamental principle, application of it is made of it
to practices.
Four authorities are thus spoken of – the Constitutive –
The Legislative – the Administrative – and the Judicary.
Occupied by what belongs to the Constitutive authority or
15 pages namely from 25 to 41.
Do I then call upon you to adopt it? Do
I propose it to your Deputies and your other Rulers
whoever they may happen to be to adopted it? No
such thing. But it will do you no harm to look
at it: it will do them no harm to look at it.
In all the several countries of Europe Those rulers whose interests are in their own
opinion irreconcilably opposite and inimical to the
interests of those over whom they rule, the rulers of
Austria, Prussia, Bavaria, Belgium, Spain by which countries
France is surrounded would, it is said regard
it as an unpardonable wrong to each one and all
of them together, if you were to presume to provide for
your own happiness in such way as in your eyes
was best: and would accordingly join in
by you as they did so lately, and instead of delivering transferring
you from the hands of one despot to those of another
would deliver you into the hands of some despot
old or new, out of your own hands, which according to
the in the eyes of these your Guardian Angels, of all
hands which it is possible for you to be in, the most dangerous.
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