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1822 July 1
Constitut. Code

Q. The Supreme Operative power why in a single body, and
not in two bodies or more.

Answer. That the functiona
Answer. That it ought to be in a body and not in an
individual

Answer. Determining Principles
1. Avoidance of needless Delay say in one word Dispatch
2. Avoidance of needless Expence. Say in a word Frugality.

Exposition of the thus Rationale of these principles
Shewn already as follows

1. That The supreme possessor or poss hands in which the supreme operative
power is lodged ought to be located and dislocated by the
great body of the people

2. The hands in which this power is lodged ought to be
not those of a single individual but those of a numerous
body

3. Of this body the members ought to be located and
dislocated by the Electors of so many Territorial Districts
into which for this purpose the whole territory of the State
ought to be divided.

This point practice being considered as established comes now
the question whether to the institution of one such numerous body being determined
upon, one or other or any more than one other
ought to be added.

The answer is – Not so much as one other: in which
answer is included a negative upon any greater number

If in addition to this first body there be a second
this second will either be a body having an interest not
opposite in any way to the interest of the people great body of them, or a body having an
interest opposite in this or that way to the interest of the
people. That ⊞ ⊞ Under the greatest happiness principle to say But among the functionaries sharing in the supreme operative power a body having an interest opposite as he had
of the people ought not to have place is as much as to say
that it is against the interest of the people to be under the government
of men having an interest opposed to theirs and in a condition to
give effect to that particular interest at the expence and by the sacrifice
of that universal interest.

There remains therefore as the sole subject of the question a second body
having an interest the same as that of the people, the or coincidence
between the two interests being provided for in the case of this second body upon the same principles as in the case of the first.

Identifier: | JB/036/164/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 36.
Date_1	1822-07-01	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	036	Main Headings	constitutional code rationale
Folio number	164	Info in main headings field	constitut. code rationale
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
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