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1823. July 21.
Constitut. Code.
II Expositive
Ch. 5. Constitutives
§. [Universal dislocative why]
Corruption analyzed

49. or 1.
Corruptionists may be
termed Corruptors and
Corruptees. Thus avoidable
the difficulty of determining
to which class, on this or
that occasion, a man
belongs.

50 or 2.
I. Corruptionists who –
1. Members of the official
Establishment, all everywhere.
I. Corruptionists principal
and upon the Establishment,
these.

51. or 3.
II. Their accomplices, natural
allies & confederates.
The several branches of
the Aristrocracy. See Letters
to Toreno.

52. or 4.
Namely, not in the State
in question only, but in
every other.
to them belong the characteristics
of Corruptionists: 1. the same sinister
interest; 2. the faculty
of serving it by their
power and influence.

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53. or 1.
13. Corruption fund.
This Of the aggregate of the
instruments of felicity
the portion the porti actually operating in the
State in question in the
production of the object
of the corruption-system –
thence contributing facility
to the misrule, and
the depredation, oppression
and dissipation therein
involved.

54. or 2.
Matter of Corruption, i.e.
matter of good & evil,
as above, everything in
it's nature capable of
thus operating: matter
belonging to the Corruption
fund, everything actually
so operating in the
State in question.
To that corruption fund
belongs not matter of
good and evil belonging
to other States.

55. or 3.
Main ingredients, the lucre
attached to the lucrative
offices. Other ingredients –
1. Power attached to Offices.
2. Factitious dignity, (if
any established,) in it's
various classes & grades.
3. Minor and incidental
gratifications affordable by
and receivable from,
rulers. Examples.
1. Opportunities of purchase
more prompt, or on more
advantageous terms.
2. Recommendations to
good offices of individuals &c. &c.

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56. or 4.
3. Of Government Expenditure,
every part havg
for object or effect, at
the expence of all, gratifications
in which
a few of the ruling &
influential few can
and do participate; the
many, not.

57. or 5.
Examples.
1. Money, for encouragement
of fine arts, and
knowledge serving for
nothing but entertainment
of the few.
2. Money employed in
purchasing productions
of do. pretendedly
for the public, i.e. the
above: those, by whose labour
they are brought
into existence or within
reach, and who generally
have no taste for them,
not being thought of: if
they were, it would be only
for keeping them out
of the way, lest amateurs
be disgusted with their
presence.

58. or 6.
Further bad effect, adding
admiration to the too
great respect which wealth
and power suffice to obtain,
from the oppressed,
for their established oppressors,
natural and irresistible
contemners, haters
and adversaries.
Of the aggregate is composed
an instrument of
that delusion, from the operation
of which, in conjunction
with corruption,
Misrule &c. receive their
support. Thus, not content
with the profit in the shape
of the profit
they claim and receive
honor, for the gratification
administered by themselves
to themselves, at the expence
of their betters.

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59. or 7.
Laudation the shape
in which, in return for
these bribes, amateurs serve
rulers. By this laudation,
the public opinion Tribunal
by which they shd.
be condemned, is deluded,
seduced, and it's judgmt.
engaged in their

60. or 8.
In the gratification, taken
by itself, no harm. But
by this negative merit, neither
justification nor excuse
for the depredation
is furnished. The same
thing may be said of gratification
in any other
shape, obtained by the produce
of official depredation
– i.e. extortion in all
it's shapes: against it, nothing
would be said, if
obtained by each man
at his own expence.

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Date_1	1823-07-21	Marginal Summary Numbering	49 or 1 - 52 or 4, 53 or 1 - 60 or 8
Box	038	Main Headings	constitutional code
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