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1823. May 27
Constitut. Code

Thus much being promised, turn now to the case of Spain
and its constitution. Not to speak of other institutions, tending
to the same effect, look at the Council of State. In this
one body, consideration had of the power vested in it given to it, may
be seen an instrument by which as sure as man is man
the unless by fear of the interposition of the body of the people,
or by the fear of it, it be annihilated, the government will
be brought back to its pristine state of despotism in the
most atrocious form, passing or not passing though despotism
the some this or that less atrocious form such as that which has
place in England.

In existence, in Spain and her several distant
dependencies, the authors of the Spanish Constitution, upon
taking into their hands the of power found in prodigious
offices belonging to the Ecclesiastical department: and
among those in both a multitude of offices , each of
them, with a prodigious mass of pecuniary emolument
either in the whole or in a great degree needless and useless
useless. Here then was so much of the matter of corruptive
influence. All this matter of corruptive influence
the founders of the Spanish Constitution kept in existence.
Note now the hands in which they placed it.

Had they placed the hands in which they placed it
been a the hands of an irresponsible unpunishable and undislocable functionary,
under the name of King, as in England and elsewhere
but not acting but with the instrumentality of some one to appearance at best punishable,
and in effect dislocable functionary under the name of
Minister, in this case, although the exercise of this
vast if mass of power would have bee had some check
to it, howsoever short of being an adequate one, namely in the
hands of the members of the Constitutive body established under in and by that
same Constitution, and the influence of the Public Opinion Tribunal,
of which by both they
are all of them members.

Identifier: | JB/037/287/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 37.
Date_1	1823-05-27	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	037	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	287	Info in main headings field	constitut. code
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c5 / c3 / e12
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	11502
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