JB/036/140/002

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1821 Aug. 17
J.B. to Portugueze Cortes

Receiving a Code from me you will receive it without
prejudice to your freedom. From no other quarter would
you receive one on the same terms

Receiving such a Code from me you will receive it from a
foreign hand. True: but by this your doing so, far from being narrowed
your liberty will be enlarged. Receiving them from Bonaparte,
the French received their Codes from the hand of despotism.
So did the Bavarians. So did the
Receiving this your Constitutional Code you from the Spanish
Codes you received it not indeed from the hand of Necessity.
Necessity is not despotism but it is no less coercive.
Receiving it as you did you did well, but it is too little
to say that you did well, for you could not have done
any otherwise. The yoke of despotism being cast off,
the choice was between that and anarchy: the dominion of
warring despots.

Identifier: | JB/036/140/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 36.
Date_1	1822-07-13	Marginal Summary Numbering	or 9 - or 12
Box	036	Main Headings	constitutional code rationale
Folio number	140	Info in main headings field	constitut. code rationale
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	b4 / c4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	11064
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