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1823 July 10 Constitut. Code Ch. 5 Corruptive
Corruption
S. Universal dislocation, why

1.

Qu. The Constitutive a dislocative
power. Why thus
comprehensive?

2.

Reasons.
Sufficient less extensive
for saving Constitution
from being destroyed:
changed from the having
for object greatest number's,
to the having for do. ruling
one or few's do.

3.

The power less comprehensive,
do., need still remains
of every supplemental security
possible.

4.

Corruptive the Sinister
force against which this
preservation is necessary,
political or say anticonstitutional
corruption.

5.

Anti Constitutional Corruption
that which has
place, in so far as for
benefit to himself, functionary.
Agent & Trustee
fr people violates such
his trust. Producing preponderant
will to the

6.

Dislocative, as above,
not universalized, these
Trustees, possessing supreme
and all comprehensive
operative power,
will in number sufficient
to the sinister effect,
give commencement &
continuance to an all
comprehensive system
of extortion, dissipation
and oppression, till by
continually increasing
sacrifice of greatest number's
to ruling few's interest
as to money and power,
the Constitution has been
changed to one or other of
the two forms of misrule.

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6 (a.)

Dissipation, not being attended
with profit to the
author, is the result of negligence
rather than design;
and being thus naturally
so much less extensive
than the two other effects
of this rule, may here pass
without further notice.

7.

1. Extortion follows the
mode in which it is produced
by the Corruption —
Legislative distributes among
the other departments
whatever business & functions
it does not itself exercise,
assigning do. to a correspondent
number of
offices, or say places, or
official situations: each
office-holder rendering to
community correspondent
services.

8.

Compelling the rendering
these services by unwilling
hands would not be consistent
with equality, or
with policy in respect of
appropriate aptitude.
Hence, to procure willingness,
the necessity of attaching
to a part, or none or less
considerable, of the whole
number of these offices
matter of <hi rend="underline">good, stiled
official emolument

9.

The common business of
the offices belonging to Executive
being to give execution
and effect to will of
Constitutive, through do.
of Legislative, hence the
need of lodging in one
hand the direction of the
whole, to wards that common
end: special

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9. Contind.

Special cause for exception
excepted. Lodging
in the same hand the
business of all those offices,
lodges in do. the disposal
of the vast aggregate
of the instruments
of felicity attached to them:
Patronage, the name of
the power of making this
disposal.

9.*

[Factitious dignity, though
so far from necessary,
being adverse to the end,
has commonly, by vexatious
causes, been included]

10.

To the legislative it belongs
to encrease this power and
provide the...
the money at it's disposal.

11.

Power of patronage is
not itself wealth, or with
relation to it an equivalent:
being the most valuable branch of power,
that other article, which
in the list of instruments
of felicity is on a par
with wealth & a means
of...

12.

Here then Executive
it is the interest to maximize
the value of the
patronage in his hands;
and in Legislative is the
power of diminishing or
encreasing it.

Identifier: | JB/038/208/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 38.
Date_1	1823-07-10	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-9, 9*, 10-12
Box	038	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	208	Info in main headings field	constitut. code
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Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1819
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