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1821. April 28. First Lines Constitutional

If, at the moment in question, it be more agreeable
to him to violate the oath than to keep it, he will take a distinction:
all proper oaths he will assure you are sacred
and inviolable, and as such ought to be fulfilled: all improper
oaths are in their own nature null and void, and
as such ought not to be fulfilled.

Break into the capital,
Make your way into the capital some dark night,
steal into the Presidents bed chamber through one of the windows,
drag him out through it and convey him into the hut or boat
you have provided for the purpose, then see what you can
make of him: what power you can get possession of by this
exploit: what money, what arsenals, what fortresses you can
get possession of: what change you can by this means make
in the constitution. to Of that pest to all legitimate and regular
Government. But no: whoever you are, you will do no
such thing: if you are a thief, you will ransack his pockets,
the man you will not meddle with, for no use whatever
could you make of him. his free negro, if you could lay
hold of him, might be of some use to you: for him you could
convert into a slave.

Under a Monarchy, accept the invitation of the wife
of the Chief Magistrate, you beget a future possessor of the throne,
taking your change for keeping your head or losing it: in a
Representative Democracy, accept the like invitation from the
wife of a Chief Magistrate, you beget a future possessor of a
farm of a Counting house; your head is not in danger: your
purse is or is not, according to the circumstances.

Identifier: | JB/037/044/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 37.
Date_1	1821-04-28	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	037	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	044	Info in main headings field	first lines
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c4
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks	c wilmott 1819
Marginals		Paper Producer	andreas louriottis
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public		ID Number	11259
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