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1822 Feb. 18
In the rationale they will possess a talisman by which
all their delusions will be dissipated dispelled. Blind whether
wilfully through wilfulness or weakness to the lights afforded by beaming from all these rationales
suppose a legislator representative in his character
of legislator concurring in the establishment of this or that arrangement or
cluster of arrangements manifested shewn by it them to be
detrimental to the interests of the greatest number. Concurr
was the question which upon his appearance in the character of a candidate for re-election every man he sees may now
be in a condition to put to him. What is both so much
and so manifestly better being all the while before your eyes, what can you
say in justification of so much as in excuse for yourself
now that you have after the preference you have given
to a set of arrangements which with reference to the undeniably and exclusively legitimate and if they are not absolutely
bad are a least any rate comparatively so?
Thus for the case of any portion of any Code and this
with regard correspondent force and effect in the case of every each
written code.
Such is the bridle to the action of which he will stand exposedwhich every Constituent not only at the hands citizen possessed
of the character of constituents shares of the constitutive power
but at moreover at the hands of every other individual
among his fellow citizens not to speak of
foreigners.
In a word, compared with that of a judgment which has a
determinately and determinably express standard for its guidance for what is the condition of a
judgment which has no such guide – "floating on every
"blast of doctrine?
Without due, the authoritative Code proposed be it ever so
bad, will be the Code mentioned: that in name, and no
other by wh its be what its badness will be exposed
With this,
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