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1823. July 1
Constitut. CodeIII Rationale
Ch. 5. Constitutive
§. 1. [Constitutive in the people – why]

Question. By what considerations can it What are the considerations by which it
can be made appear that the people, absolutely as above considered
possess the requisite degree of appropriate aptitude with
reference for the exercise of those same functions.

Answer. By general reason and by particular experience.

Question. What in this case is to be understood
by general reason?

Answer. Consideration deduced from the nature
of men as exemplified in his feelings, appetites, desires, interests, affections,
passions, motives, inducements, propensities and actions
common to all individuals, in all situations.

Question. What in this case is to be understood
by particular experience?

Answer. Particular experience in private situations
in the case of persons individuals separately and particular experience in political situations in the case of persons collectively taken: namely
in the sort of political situation of here in question to that the situation
where occupied by the people in the States in which the form
of government is a pure representative democracy, as above,
in a word, the several states or in the nature of certain functions of Government where by the same
form constitution the confederacy called denominated the United States.

Question. Particular experience in what private
situation?

Answer. In the situation of a person having need
of an Agent for the management of certain of his affairs,
namely any affairs, be they what it may, which his
time, or his faculties of all kinds natural and acquired
do not in his judgment admitt of his managing by his own hands in his own
person in a manner equally beneficial to himself.

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Date_1	1823-07-01	Marginal Summary Numbering	3-6
Box	037	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	176	Info in main headings field	constitut. code
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