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1830 Dec 7
J.B. to BelgiansLetter III
(3)

A form of government so so are the portions of the interest of the few
The Constitution of those United States have of course its detractors
and by those detractors, corruption is with little reserve imparted
to it. In speaking of corruption this state of things is what
I should expect to find they have in view.

(4)
To a form of government to such a degree odious to the
majority of the population of the political greater number of politicians
no want want can there be of dectractors: and by those
detractors, is of course corruption is in general terms
of course, among the
imputations cast
on it. that to this Everywhere
case is in
thus to cast general
and ungrounded aspersion
is everywhere
but too easy: to Not so under
that form of government to find
particular grounds, and
individual examples
of evil in that shape. No examples so appropriate
and plausible in concept
as that which I have
just been bringing to your
view, will scarcely,
I think, have been to
be found.

(2)
To what extent the practical ill effects of such an
arrangement are capable of having place, without it being
possible to take them to their source, it seems by no
means easy to say. Look at the following state of
things, and consider whether it may not be regarded
as affecting something in the way of proof and exemplification.

(1)
Under In a popula Under a government which has for
its end in view the greatest happiness of the whole community
no such flagrant instances of inaptitude can reasonably
be looked for as under a government which
has for its end in view the greatest happiness of the
favoured few at the expence of the plundered and oppressed many: if, in this or that instance the choice that happens to be made
be in any sense bad, the badness will be – not absolute,
but only comparative: comparative – that is to say not so good, as some other that
might have been made: or the official situation if any such bad choice be made
has been made, the official situation will have been of the number
of those, of which the importance is greater in appearance
than in reality.

(3)
Minister Plenipotentiary – not many years
ago to the Court of Paris a man who was deaf, and could not speak a
syllable of the French language: that language, which was
the particular language of the country he was sent to reside
in, besides being the common language of the civilized world.

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Date_1	1830-12-07	Marginal Summary Numbering
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