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1830. Sept. 25
J.B. to France against Peers
Letter II against Peers
123
Not idle on this occasion
were Lawyers.
To English Lawyer is what
to a Russian Peasant a hatchet
– with it he makes
everything he wants.
With it they make for a
bandage to the people's
eyes, the Original Compact
– without it, perhaps they
would not have been
willing to lend their assistance,
certainly not
able.
124.
From fiction
was employed by adopted
by Locke and employed
in support of "Glorious
Revolution".
Locke was disciple of
Chancellor Shaftesbury.
125.
Of the greatest happiness
principle he had no distinct
vision: to that quarter by
eyes had not directed themselves
with any sufficient degree of shadiness.
126
Witness his notion of showing
what law ought to be
by merely bringing to view
the relation of the import
of one word to that of another:
giving to that indication
the name of demonstration:
namely –
where there is no property
there is no
justice.
127
Fabulous the original
compact between King &
People: too real that between
King, Lords, & Commoners.
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128
Compact for bringing into
hotchpotch, picnic fashion,
their share of power and making
a feast for themselves
at the expence of lower
orders, mob, &c by whose
labour the materials
were produced.
129.
Chorus, Blackstone's substitute
&c. Halleh-jah – His "Esto
Perpetua".
130
So much for authority –
begotten prejudice the in
favour of a Second Chamber
planted by Glorious
Revolution.
127(a)
Reference to Fragm't:
131.
American Emancipation
From 1688 to 1773 plunderage
&c went on everywhere:
all "used" to it:
Americans not so much
as Europeans.
In matters of detail
the arrangements they
were most used to, they
had through carelessness
been suffered to make
for themselves.
132.
Of Government's hand the
inversely as its length.
Of the daughter countries
the infant hands put
aside the mother's facing
freeing the daughter's
from her gripe.
132.
For ordinary purposes
they had every one of them a
H. of Commons of their own choosing:
most of the H. of quasi-Lords: whether
or no of their own choosing.
133.
King's the only hand their ancestors
had felt the weight of, & fled from.
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134
Not much comprehensiveness
had their remedies:
it was not to be expected.
Pluckt out were the thorns
one after another:
Neither to sensation nor
imagination had 2nd Chr
been the cause of their
sufferings.
135.
No wonder when the parts
has that galled them were
removed they should
continue to a government
continually landed by
the placemen sent
over to there; and by
their lawyers, inheritors
of the sinister interest of
the makers of the laws
they brought over.
136.
Thence Axioms – Anglicè
– Whatsoever is is right
Blackstonicè – Everything
is as it should be. Gallicè,
Pourquoi innover? Est ce que
nous ne sommes pas bient
True in proportion to the
extent given to nous.
137
In second to Chamber
an explanation – requiring
cause of mis conception.
See
importance second not in
time.
138
Order in time – King, Lords &
Cannons, everywhere.
1. King acting by himself & for
himself
2. So Lords for themselves.
3. People only by their Trustees, &c.
139
Under non-representative
democracy synonymous was
anarchy: by absolutists (Tories
and Whigs) this is applied to
representative.
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