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1822 Aug. 16
Constitut. Code

1.
Expedients for bringing
rulers interest into
accordance with universal:
&c.
1. Expedient 1.
Rendering Supreme operatives
eventually punishable
for opposition
to universal interest.

2.
This expedient supposes
the division of supreme
power taken in the aggregate:
or say fractionizing
it.
On condition of dividing
it into two or more
fractions, a ruler who
at one time can not
be punished, may be
punished at another
time: otherwise, not.
In such division there
is nothing but what is
familiar in practice.

3.
2. Expedient 2.
Placing as far as possible,
in the situation
of rulers, those on whom
rule is exercised.

4.
Could this be employed
throughout, the junction
of interests would be
compleat and perpetual.
But, instead of Government,
this would be
not government, but negation
of all government.
It wold be anarchy.

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5.
By either of two circumstances,
in a community
possessing any
such extent as for security
from without
all political states require,
such removal of
all distinction between
rulers and ruled is
rendered impossible.
1. To come at once to
any resolution, all
concerned must at the
same time be in one
and the same where
they can hear and be
heard.
2. In determining how
the matter of subsistence
when produced should
be disposed of, the time
necessary for the production
of it would be
consumed.

6.
Hence, need of deputation:
Supreme operative
and do. constitutive
separated: Supreme
operative be deputies
as trustees: do. constitutive
reserved to all
subject to do. operative
as principals.
Collectively, all my exercise
dislocative as
well as locative power
over all those to whose
operative power all are
individually subject.

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7.
Included in Supreme
Constitutive power may
be –
1. Do. locative
2. Do. dislocative.
In hands different from
those exercising the locative
may the dislocative
be lodged: or in none:
if in none, then is dislocation
performed only by
death. In either case, that
the Constitutive power
will be comparatively weak
is evident.

8.
on the smallest scale,
constitutive power as
between principal and
Agent – including dislocative
as well as locative
is in existence every
where; objected to no where.
Right in the case of
each, what should make
this otherwise in the
case of all?

9.
In Monarchies the locative
power is in the
hands of blind chance
under the name of birth,
dislocative in none but
death. Why by these agents
a better chance one of requisite
aptitude should
be afforded than by chance
by those interested in making
an apt one, remains
to be proved.

Identifier: | JB/038/091/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 38.
Date_1	1822-08-16	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-9
Box	038	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	091	Info in main headings field	constitut. code
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