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1823 July 20
Constitut. Code

14 XIV Course taken by Corruption by the corruptive process

The legislative as a body in its corporate capacity,
corrupts the Executive, that he Chief of the Executive Department to enable him and engage
him to corrupt the members of the legislative in their individual
capacity.

At the commencement of a Constitution with this in which this distinction
in it this not distribution is made of the powers of it, an interchange of the sort in question can fail to be not only in the contemplation
but in the intention of a more or less considerable number
of the persons concerned in the framing of it: and if it
so it were in the case of all those without exception there the
wonder would not be great. would be nothing wonderful in it. excepting always the one case One case alone is capable of
furnishing an exception, and that case a rare one: the case
where the intelligence of the body of the people is such, as to put
an exclusion upon all prospect of success: in this case, hope Hope
not being present to fan the flame, the desire may to all practical
purposes become extinct.

If in this way in the mind of the ruler the creation of a system of corruption
did not form an essential par a leading a vital feature of the scheme plan of the government
in the minds of the governing individuals, sooner or later the preservation and
augmentation would be sure to do so.

But, for the production of this effect, nothing of design, no
foresight, no contrivance, no study, no ingenuity is necessary,
the measures of the moment, determined by the appetites and passions of the moment,
that never cease nor ever can cease to be in operation and guided by the views of the moment, suffice at all times for the production of it.⊞ ⊞ Nothing more is necessary
than that in this situation
men should do as they always
done in all other situations,
on this occasion as they
have done on all other
occasions. Between
no two persons is anything
of concert necessary.
What in every other occasion
situation each man has been in the habit of doing without any such concert, so may he in this. A To produce The production of this corruption in the accumulated body, design reflective are no more
necessary than to the production of corruption
in the physical sense on the dead body. ☞ Shew this afterwards by the example of England.

As in all other places, so in the legislative assembly At all times the appetite for the external instruments of felicity in all
their shapes have place and rules give directions to determine conduct in all breasts. From
the hands favor of the Executive that which they look to are to be had those objects of general desire are to be had
from their hands that source and no other: by inducing producing and reproducing on his part a correspondent
disposition to afford the gratification sought they look to, it may on the
such occasion be maintained: by no other means is it obtainable.

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Date_1	1823-07-20	Marginal Summary Numbering
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