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1830 Decr 7
J.B. to BelgraveLetter III

Such being the arrangement behold the a consequence.
In show you see the members of that body – every
one of them – acting as a check upon any ill which unapt appointment,
which, without it, the President, for his own sinister purposes
of his own, might be tempted at the expense of the interests of the whole community, might be tempted to make. So much for show.
here Now for effect: thus stands the matter in effect.
In effect, being were the question put to me I should say – the nominations in question are in each
each instance made by some one of those functionaries. Nobody
out of doors knows who, without being incommoded
with any such check troublesome check as would be applied by the his colleagues
– in the trust President included, or any one of them. Check
there is in I in a word, none whatever: check, or as in the case of this and all
other official situations I find it more adequate to the purpose to
say security for appropriate aptitude, none:⊞ ⊞ appropriate aptitude
including,
intellectual and
active as well as
moral aptitude,
responsibility none:
exposure to the eventual censure
of no tribunal
whatsoever: neither
to that of any legal
tribunal, nor to that
of the responsibility,
none: responsibility to no point whatsoever neither to any legal tribunal, nor to any
Public Opinion Tribunal. So much for generals. Now for
particulars.

States 24. Senators sent to Congress for each, two
total 48: majority 25. Add to those, President one; together
you have 26. In the power of each of those 26 it is by agreement
with the rest to appoint in the quality of singly-acting
patron a protegé of his own choice. As for and
interest, , the benefit, use, – his own is all he has any need to
care think about: the public's he has no need to trouble himself
with. Here then you see (to borrow a word from the )
here then you see a cycle of 26, which repeats itself
as many times as, in the whole establishment of this central government, there are official situations thus filled.
happen thereof Number, suppose 2,600: here then instant
of the unbeneficial and time-consuming discussion, and contestation,
amicable or hostile in the question of aptitude
absolute non comparative on the part of candidates in any
number for number for each such office, what in effect
has place is – a mass
of snug patronage
composed of a hundred
of those same official
situations.

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Date_1	1830-12-07	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	023	Main Headings	lord brougham displayed
Folio number	152	Info in main headings field	jb to belgians
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e2 / f39 / f2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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