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1822 March 10.
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Note (a) to the last page.
Treatise
The corresponding
letter of reference (a)
may be attached to
the last word of the
text on the preceding
page.

(a) In situations, in which the choice of operative
rulers depends upon the people, the jealousy of foreigners
has, for want of reflection, been copied, from situations
in which the choice does not depend upon the people.
For want of reflection: for, on reflection, nothing
(it will be seen) could be more groundless, than any such apprehension, as that a people set of men, be they who they may,
will be imprudently partial to a foreigner in preference
to themselves, or even to one another. Nothing can
be more contrary to theory derived from the universal nature
of man; nor nothing more compleatly unsupported by particular experience.

Hereupon presents itself the idea of a practical
measure, for which, if not in strictness relevant with reference to the present topic the promise
of usefulness, coupled with the assurance of innoxiousness,
may perhaps be accepted as an excuse. In the case
of a legislative body the members of which are freely
chosen by the people, why should not they aggregate to
themselves a few members, selected by them from other
political states whose constitution bears more or less
analogy to theirs? In the case of these foreign associates,
to the right of speech and motion need not, nor should,
added the right of suffrage: for, to any use, derivable
from information, afforded by a man in the character of
a witness or an advocate, would be applied – not addition
but substraction, by any thing share given to him in the power
a Judge. Power, it would not be competent to
them to give: information, so it but afforded any the
least promise of being of use, no man can be incompetent
to receive.

To the case of a new-formed government,
struggling under all the difficulties opposed by inexperience,
the idea is more eminently applicable.

Take for instance the case of Spain. What should
hinder the Legislative body, in that Country, from calling
in the assistance of a few distinguished individuals, one
or more from each one of several foreign Countries?
Portugal, Italy, Germany, France and England for example?
or Portugal from calling in the like assistance from Spain,
in addition to those other foreign countries.
Still

Identifier: | JB/036/149/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 36.
Date_1	1822-07-19	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	036	Main Headings	constitutional code rationale
Folio number	149	Info in main headings field	constitut. code rationale
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c6?
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::i&m [fleur de lys] 1818]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	arthur wellesley, duke of wellington
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1818
Notes public		ID Number	11073
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