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1823. April 27
Constitut. Code
On each occasion the desire of the Monarch is to
see maximized for his benefit the sinister sacrifice. On each
occasion the duty of the each representative of the people is to endeavour to prevent
altogether, and if that be not possible to minimize that same
sinister sacrifice. But of such representatives it is
the interest, in so far as if by the term of his relation to the connection with his constituents
it has not been rendered otherwise, to maximize whatsoever
portion of the sinister sacrifice can be made for his own
particular benefit. In so far then as this be Here then are
two sinister interests – that of the Monarch and that of the
Representative – in a word that of all the Representatives of the
people. In To the hands of the Monarch in conjunction with those of same the
Representatives belongs the power of making laws to any effect, and
thereby then of making laws legislative arrangements to the amount effect or producing for their benefit, up to any
amount of the sinister sacrifice. In so far then as
between the Monarch on the one hand and the majority of those
Representatives on the other an agreement can be come to and is
accordingly come to respecting the proportions in which the benefit
shall between the two parties be shared, the making of
the sinister sacrifice takes place of course.
In every government in which a body representative composed of representing
of the people as above the will of which represents or is supposed
to represent that of the people has place and shares with the
Monarch in the power of legislation, the power of placing
men in the above mentioned desirable offices of all
sorts is either in the whole or in as to the greatest portion
of it in the hands of the Monarch: so likewise to an extent
more or less considerable, and in a way more or less
direct and easy that of displacing them. This power is called
the power of patronage: or for shortness patronage.
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