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1823. May 23
Constitut. Code.III Rationale
Ch. Legislative
§. Locative Why not in Constitutive

Question. Why place the supreme legislative authority not in
the hands in which the supreme Constitutive is placed, but in those
of Agents chosen by the supreme Constitutive.

Answer. Reasons.

The In answer the reasons for this arrangement are are such as present themselves
sufficiently obvious to every eye: they are not less obvious than conclusive. Or only for the sake of symmetry, if at all
can they be worth mentioning.

For themselves if the members of the Const Constitutive authority
have the great majority can not in point of physical possibility find time for the
performance of this part of their business. By Agent itself they
must perform it or have it unperformed: which is as much as
to say have political society They are those, on whose
labours – in whose disposal of them have in other ways natural stock of the matter
of subsistence and abundance depends for its existence: this necessary
matter in which the members of the community depend for their
existence.

By Agents therefore must they perform this part of their
respective businesses or leave it unperformed: which is as much
as to say, leave social political society unformed.

To bestow, as occasions according to each one's leisure, an occasional glance on
the conduct of such their Agent in the execution of their trust – this is what they can do: and this
as experience shows is sufficient.

Identifier: | JB/037/353/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 37.
Date_1	1823-05-23	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-3
Box	037	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	353	Info in main headings field	constitut. code location
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