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1823 July 21
Constitut. Code

§ Dislocatedness of the members of the Legislative, its insufficiency
☞ This before dislocability &c – its insufficiencies

Dislocability and dislocation of the Legislative – its insufficiency without
the proposed dislocation.
Remedy – Dislocability of the Legislative insufficient.

The Legislature being the seat of supreme operative
power, to stem for stemming the torrent of corruption the obvious course to be
taken is the first quarter to which the remedial arrangement
must be obviously it is obvious be the legislature: This house however
is not sufficient and with or without the additional expedient of preventing
the of Members, the shortening the duration of assigning to their power
no more than a short duration may be apt to appear at
first sight at least sufficient. This however it will can not
be: for though short as in that department the term of service may be, this such it can not
conveniently be in the Executive department. There stands sits the
same Chief Even if the inconvenience in that case objection on that account were
got over and the length of the term of service in that department as in
the other minimized, still as the head of that department
there must some person or persons there must be, and on both
sides the parties having the same interest, and the same means
of pursuing them, and pursuing them with effect, the same results
would follow. In their individual capacity the members of
the legislature would have the same desire of providing for their
families and friends: they would have the same means of gratifying
that desire: the chief or chiefs of the Executives being necessarily
subject to the power of the Legislature, liable exposes and only to the
having the duration of their power, how short some rendered made still
shorter, but to be punished, and in the meantime vexed in at an infinite variety of ways
without the form of punishment would never cease to feel themselves
under the obligation of keeping in with the members of
of the legislative: in other words of letting admitting them in for a share in the
sweets of corruption by locating them in lucrative and other
desirable offices. The members of the On their part it would be
their care not only to preserve from decrease the value the aggregate of the good things
at his disposal, but upon each favorable occasion to give increase
to it; and at the same time, in case of any misdeed on his part
by which their own interest were not seen to be in a determinate way
a prejudiced sufferer to coming at it, and in case of complaint to turn an ear
as deaf as possible to the complaint.

Identifier: | JB/037/264/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 37.
Date_1	1823-07-21	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	037	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	264	Info in main headings field	constitut. code
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1822
Marginals		Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1822
Notes public		ID Number	11479
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