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1822 Aug. 31
Constitut. Code First Principles
1.
Corruption (largé)
deteriorative: breaking
up texture: understand
rendering worse: at first
physicé: then Moraliter
breaking up mental texture.
2.
Physicé – subjects not
more than one necessary:
viz. the corruptible
mass: subsidiary,
not necessary.
3
Moraliter, subjects two:
agent and patient: agent,
corrupting, corruptor:
patient, corrupted
corrupt.
4.
Thus corruption –
name of the operation
and the result.
4 (a)
Through all European
languages probably, certainly
through all in so
far as Latin rooted,
runs this ambiguity:
thence confusion.
5.
By corruptor, corruptive
influence successfully
exercised: by corruptee
(to say after
Blackstone) corrupt
obsequiousness practiced.
6.
In the idea of corruption
commonly included
is that of an instrument:
mass of the matter of corruption
so employed:
as it were a
On mind, it must operate
as an inducement:
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6 contind.
viz. matter of evil, or
do. of good so operating.
Corruption the effect
may be called when the
inducement is intimated:
ex. gr. fear of death.
Not, however, of this sort:
but of the alluring: viz.
the matter of good is
the inducement most
apt to be suggested.
7.
Matter of good: viz. portion
of the mass of the
external instruments of
feliciy: viz. power, wealth,
with or without factitious
honor or say do. dignity.
8.
1. Distinction 1. first in
importance, thence in
place. 1. Corruption designed
or say by design.
2. Do. undersigned, without
design: undesigned,
i.e. not necessarily so:
only capable of being so:
for of that sort which
is capable of having place
without, much has place
by design.
9.
As plants, so corruption,
established by chance;
design takes up, applies,
augments, propagates.
10.
Of design, the corruption
effected by a vote
bought of an Elector by
a Candidate: certainly
conscious is the Corruptee
of the inducement by
which his vote was
produced.
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11.
Not to the corrupted
Representative by whom,
for a lucrative office,
the support has for years
been given to a system
of depredation and
oppression by a corrupting
Monarch. Unconscious
may both be, seeing
that the Executive
must have subordinates –
thinking that their offices
must be lucrative.
Representatives thinking
they may as well be in
his as other hands: and
Monarch being kind and
bountiful, religion and
morality join in commanding
gratitude: religion,
which "thinketh no
evil".
12.
2. Distinction 2. Corruptive
personal or
personally, do. systematic
or systematically
seated: 1 personal corruptor,
a determinate and
assignable individual:
Example. Candidate
as above.
13.
Systematic, individual
corruptor not known or
not necessarily do.: nominal
corruptor, the system
or frame of Governments
a fictitious entity: the individual
by whom the corruptive
connection was
formed not known, unless
by accident.
14.
Example. In a functionary
not displaceable by
those whose interest is the
universal do., a share in
the Supreme legislative with
nearly the whole of the
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14 contind.
Executive placing and
displacing sub-functionaries
in lucrative
Offices. Source of the corruption,
not the mental
texture of this or that individual
Representative,
but the form of Governmt.
which gives to a functionary
in whose mind
the desire of buying by
corruptive influence
corrupt obsequiousness
for support & encrease
to unlimited depredation
and oppression, the
men in power: as also
to Representative means
and power of selling himself
for that purpose.
15.
Prior these distinctions
in importance: thence
in place.
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