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1823. July 8
Constitut. Code.

Ch. Constitutive
VV. Receiptor – quis.

16.
5. IV. Receiving hands:
Corruptee's or any other
if connected with Corruptee
by interest self
regarding or purely
sympathetic.
By some, corrupting
benefit which would
not be received by their
own, will be by another
hand.

17.
To yourself, value of
a benefit conferred on
your friend may be
equal in value to do.
conferred on yourself,
or less in an infinitely
decreasing series.

18.
Thus as between one
benefit and another.
But by friend's hands,
no bounds to the number
of benefits receivable
other than do. to the whole
of the Government expenditure:
all operating
with corruptive influence
on all functionaries,
and all who hope to be so.

19.
See already how necessarily
inefficient all arrangements
confining
the restriction to corruptee's
own hand.
Hence the necessity of
other securities.

20.
6. V. Corruptor or Corruptors:
parties, by whom
the benefit of the sinister
effect is reaped. These
are, on each occasion,
1. Special do.: he or they
by whom on this occasion,
the benefit is reaped.

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Ch. Constitutive
V. Corruptor

21.
2. Corruptors or Corruptor
Generals, those who have
at their disposal the whole
mass of the matter of
good, operating or capable
of being made to operate
in the character of matter
of corruption.

22.
In every political State,
all functionaries and all
who hope to be so, are
under the temptation of
being corruptors and
corruptees; and unless
by special and apt preventives
prevented, are
sure to be so.

23.
Under every form of Government,
interest of
all functionaries is,
as above, opposite to do. of
non-functionaries; whereupon
unless prevented by
special preventives, the
sinister sacrifice will
every where be made.

24.
By a Republican Government
alone is applied
the only specific
remedy: namely, a Constitutive
Superordinate,
as above, to the Supreme
Operative.

25.
Between Corruptors &
Corruptees, the distinction
is not in every instance
easy to trade out: both are
accomplices, concurring
in the production of the
sinister effect.

26.
Sinister effect, Misrule
in toto, Corruptors preceding
rulers – Corruptees
succeeding do.

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Ch. Constitutive
Corruptor quis alliances

27.
In an absolute Monarchy,
Corruptor General the Monarch,
Corruptee General,
do.. In one hand, he has
at his disposal the whole
mass of the instruments
of felicity; in the other, he
lodges them all for his
own use: sacrificing, to
his own expectations of
happiness, the happiness
of the people at large.

28.
But, as by his own hands
alone no such sinister
sacrifice could be made,
hence the necessity he is
under of applying more
or less of the matter of
good in his hands, to the
making of Corruptees,
employed by him as instruments
in the sinister
sacrifice.

29.
In the case of a Mixt
and thus limited Monarchy,
does the distinction
show itself more clearly.
[But still more so in a
Representative democracy:
therefore begin with this
latter case.]

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