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1823. May 27
Constitut. Code

Thus Whether of by those same legislators by in whom this instrument of
corruption not not to speak of others was framed had its authors manufacture perpetuity was the among the qualities
really intended to be given to their work, perpetuity however clothed shod
in the garb of temporariness may now be judged when with after
this those articles which peo by which corrigibility
is professed to have been given to their work have been looked at.

To pursue through all its details d
no fewer than ten out of the 384 articles of this
Constitution so sad a monument of human mental
weakness would be people and labour very unprofitably
bestowed expended. Let two particulars three specimens suffice.

I. To the From profession of an

1. During the continuance of the restriction the will of the
of the representatives of the people is to prevail over the
that of the majority: for to the applying of any remedy
to such mischiefs evils as this Constitution Code has left without remedy
no less proportion than two thirds of the members
present are ever to suffice: and, thrice at their is no saying
a three times with there is no saying what long interval
of time between them, three times say Article 379, 380, 383 is this majority to declare itself, before
this of the minority over the majority is to be at
an end.

2. Not so much as for For the commencement of this so anxiously organized
system of delay shall it be in the power of any human being
to fix upon any point of time howsoever distant. True it is that by Article 377 Eight years
is a length of time mentioned at the end of which it may
take its commencement. But there this length of eight years at what
point of time is it to take its commencement? Answer by
Article 375. Not till "after eight years have its elapsed from
the time that the Constitution has been carried put in all its parts.
Hasta pasados ocho años después de hallarse puesta en práctica
la Constitucion en todas sus partes." so

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Date_1	1823-05-27	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	037	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	292	Info in main headings field	constitut. code
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