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1821 Decr. 12
Codification Proposal

On this play, it is seen, (the be the nation in question
what it may, the initiative function in legislative is laid open
to all mankind not only to every member of the community in question,
but to every member of that all-comprehensive community
of which the particular community in question is itself a member.

Laid open to all mankind? Yes: and why should it not
be? To the initiative function, as thus described, no power is
attached – to the initiative function so as it be not instead of being exclusively
possessed by him by whom it is exercised, it is given to be exercised
by all others without distinction, no power is attached annexed,
from the exercise of it therefore no possible danger can by any
possibility ensue. To admitt all men to the exercise of this
function is neither more nor less than to be ready to remove
from all men service in this shape: To the community for the service is received from receiving service in this
shape, no danger can attach any more than from receiving money
from the individuals of all nations supposing them disposed to give it.
give it.

Thus exempt power of all mischievous tendency the service
thus necessary to the obtaining for the greatest number the best
chance for the greatest happiness, has come the plan simple
as it is to the utmost pitch of simplicity and obviousness
never to have been acted upon? The reason is as manifest cause of regular
as the plan itself, simple and obvious. In the case of every body
of men, to one whose the taking of the plan has depended,
the initiative function has been coupled either
considered as appertaining appertained to this exclusively: it has therefore been coupled
with power and with power there effective beyond all comparison
this that of a Monarch to whom in the shape of a veto
the consumative power with or without an the initiative has
been committed left permitted.

Under the French Constitution imposed on France by English bayonets
the initiative belongs exclusively to the Monarch. Thus be misrule ever so
flagitious, misery ever so universal and excruciating, all possibility of remedy, so
long

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	1-5
Box	036	Main Headings	constitutional code rationale
Folio number	128	Info in main headings field	constitutional code rationale
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Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	a8 / c1 / d8
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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