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1823. July 5
Constitut. Code.III Rationale
Ch. 5. Constitutive
§. [Dislocation – why]

Corruption Corruptive influence

To exclude corruption altogether is therefore plainly impossible. But
taken by itself, abstraction made of its effects in corruption what is called corruption corruption by remuneration there is
nothing but what is good: for taken in itself the matter of corruption is the very
matter of good the matter of good in every shape. This being the
case the impossibility of excluding corruption would not be matter
of rational regret, if supposing an exclusion put upon the evil effects capable of flowing from it. That
this exclusion should ever be made compleat may be too much
to hope for: what is not too much to hope for is the ex bringing
it about to a degree less than it exists at present even in the
United States: and though it were never to be reduced to
an inferior degree, if it could but be brought down to that
degree in every political state though it were to fall no lower,
a lover of mankind might with exaltation a reduction to
that degree, though it were to descend no lower might be contemplated
with exaltation by a lover of mankind.

To hope the effects bring its For reducing its evil effects to a minimum
these two sorts of arrangements present themselves: the one consists in
reducing to the minimum the quantity of the matter of good capable of operating
in the character of maker of corruption: another in providing
a curative terminative remedy, by giving to the constitutive the power of
removing of ridding the establishment of corrupt members in any
number as soon as may be after their inaptitude has become
in their the judgment of that authority tribunal sufficiently manifest.
A third consist in the so ordering matters that even where the
matter is such as shall render the location of a functionary the result
of corruptive influence, in so much that the individual located
shall be – not the most apt that can be found, but some other
who though not positively is comparatively unapt, still at the worst the comparative
inaptitude shall not, as in government in which corruption
is in vigor descend to the level of positive inaptitude. This arrangement
consists in the providing for all public functions a supply of candidates
in the instance of all
of whom appropriate
aptitude with relation
to the functions in question
shall in the most
public manner have
stood demonstrated.

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Date_1	1823-07-05	Marginal Summary Numbering	[[marginal_summary_numbering::39 [or] 2, 38 [or] 1]]
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