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1823. May 26
Constitut. Code

1 Perpetually restrictive system – in but what cases it
may be of use.

All this while true it is, that not only by with the help of those real or
apparent palliatives, one or both of them but even without either of them the restrictive system is not by no means incapable of being of use.

That That it is capable of being of use can not is undeniable,
be for that it to has been of use is equally so.

1 Under a form of government bad in principle it is capable
of being of use: and under every such government, in so far
as it has been applied, it probably has been of any use, as
having been so is to proof of the badness of the the government as one that is bad in principle, use there be as
a more conclusive or stouter proof of the badness of the government
than that such a system has been of use under it.

Of this sort To this head belong the sorts of instruments called in English
and thence in French Charters: in English Bills of Rights.

In § The restriction In no case of this sort is the restriction restrictive arrangement
altogether without its use. Why? because the government is
bad in principle. It principle it is despotic a despotism, the end
in view is not the only true end but a false one: not the
greatest happiness of the greatest number, but the greatest happiness
of the a ruling one, with or without that of a comparatively
few in the character either of his instruments or
his partners in the profit of misrule.

On an occasion of this sort, selection is made of some of the grossest and
most palpable of the forms in which depredation and oppression
are selected want to show themselves, and by one means
or other the depredator – and Oppressor General have been
engaged to promise that from depredation and oppression in respect to those particular
forms he will be graciously pleased to abstain in future.
Not that to him rule any right to the exercise of depredation in those
any more than any other forms is wanting: but that in those
particular instances such is his mercy and condescension to
will, if he in so far as he continues he is pleased to continue in the same mood, be pleased
to abstain from the exercise of them.

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Date_1	1823-05-26	Marginal Summary Numbering	or 1
Box	037	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	280	Info in main headings field	constitut. code
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