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1823 July 21
Constitut. Code

10. Self-corruption – in what case it has place.

Where the corruption is single-seated this is the case the case is that of
self-corruption. This is the case where the two powers legislative
in chief and Executive in chief are concentrated have place located in
one and the same hand.

This is as truly a case of corruption, as that when it is
double seated: by the hand of power by the power- hand a benefit is reaped and it is at the expence
and by the sacrifice of the universal interest greatest happiness of the greatest number that it is reaped.
With how much more facility the sinister private benefit is in this
case repeated than in the other case reaped, and the sinister
public burth effect produced, is sufficiently manifest.

The case of double-seated and reciprocal corruption is
the case where the Sovereignty is divided between two or more seats,
as in the case of a mixt Monarchy: is a republic with
two superior bodies in it.

Of The case of self-corruption is the case of an unmixt
or say pure and absolute Monarchy presents the most simple and
unquestionable example. How in this case how the effect is brought in
see below.

In the present case highest grades there is no room for self-corruption
in the present case highest grades: by the supposition the legislative power is in
one set of hands; the power of patronage in another.

In any one of those two departments, self-corruption may
have place. In the Executive a superordinate, to provide sure
the expence of himself from providing for at his own expence for a son of his
locates him though unapt in a situation under him. This is
truly an instance of corruption, as if to a stranger he had
sold the offer place for what it would bring and put the money
into his own pocket: the Prime Minister for example appoints
a coward son to the command of an army or the army a coward
son or drunken son.

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Date_1	1823-07-21	Marginal Summary Numbering	45 or 1 - 46 or 2
Box	037	Main Headings	constitutional code
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