JB/037/077/002

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1821 Aug. 17
J.B. to Portugueze Cortes☞ Not employed

Speak the word and you shall receive from me of my making you shall have from
In the first place, a proposed Penal Code, in the next place a
proposed Civil Code, in the third place a proposed Constitutional Code: all
of these adapted as far as may be to the circumstances
of Portugal will be kept in view in so far as the state of them may be to can be learnt
from the text of your existing laws Ordinances and Judicial customs more particularly
such as shall have Ordinances as in the intervening intervals shall
have from the regenerated legislature,⊞ ⊞ and with from such
appropriately intelligent
fellow citizens of yours
as I may be fortunate
enough to find within
my reach.

Be they
ever so ill adapted these draughts of mine no mischief to Portugal would will be
done by them from them will be to be found: none could can be done, without your that sanction
which you would will not give. Oh Yes indeed; if the principles
were bad: But but the principles are no other than those
you have already sanctioned on which the seal of your approbation is already stamped.

Force, intimidation, corruption and delusion –
under these names may be placed all the instruments
of misrule misconduct in government. In have
Never was body of law so clear of poison from all
those several sources as that will be is which through your hands by the
means now thus offered to you it will depend upon you to
give to your Constituents.

Never was choice so free as that which I am
thus putting into your hands. Force, intimidation, corruption
and delusion – by all these instruments of misrule
is freedom of choice in the taking the expression being taken in that most extensive
sense which belongs to it on the present occasion, violated.

Identifier: | JB/037/077/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 37.
Date_1	1822-07-07	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	037	Main Headings	constitutional code rationale
Folio number	077	Info in main headings field	constitut. code rationale
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	b1 / e1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	11292
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