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1822 May 29 Economy &c.
Ch. VI. Legislative
§. Relocable, who

Ch Surplus for 1
identified
Non-reeligibility

1.
1. Means of identification,
non-reeligibility
of Supreme operatives.
Reason 1.
1. Subservience to
moral aptitude.
Subject, all his life long
Ruler say one year
only. Improbable,
that, for such short
lived power, a man
should barter perpetual
security.

2.
Objection 1. Insufficiency
In Assembly No. 1. In
that one year may
be obtained by each
member, situations
unlimited in value
for his connections.
So in Assembly No. 2.
Thus may be formed
an Aristocracy composed
of the members
of the several successive
assemblies.
Notwithstanding
exclusions, the particular
and sinister
interest will remain.
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3.
Objection 2. Inconsistency
with Elector's
supposed aptitude.
By supposition they
are apt to choose a
representative
antecedently to their
experience of him:
much more after
such experience.

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3 contind.
In Assembly No. 1,
suppose sinister influence
of aristocratical
interest observed in a
member: to Assembly
No. 2 he will not be
returned.

Evidence not sufficient
for punishment
may be quite sufficient
for non-reelection.
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4.
Objection 3. Detriment
to intellectual aptitude.
The younger the state,
the greater the demand
for appropriate
experience and the
scantier the supply.
Thus to narrow the
supply, can it fail
to be detrimental?

5.
Answer 1. Objection 3
1. Utility of intellectual
aptitude - thence its
contributoriness to aggregate
aptitude, depends
upon moral aptitude.
Suppose disposition
towards the sinister
sacrifice, the greater the
intellectual aptitude, the
more likely will such
disposition be to be
productive of corresponding
acts & effects.

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6.
Answer 2. to Objection 3:
Suppose due publicity
given to Assembly's proceedings,
real advantage of
quondam members over
nunquam members not
so great as apparent do.
He who looks to be member
of assembly 2, will naturally
have been perpetually
present at and attentive
to the proceedings of
assembly 1.

Cognizable by him have
all along been all proceedings
as well as acts of
assembly one - also all
Debates, i. e. the rationale
of them.

7.
True of such cognizance
useless the power, except
in proportion to effectual
will and inclination.
See in England members
who have continued such
for 50 years without the
inclination, thence compleatly
without the aptitude.
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8.
Chief real advantage,
means of knowing & judging
individual characters,
habits, thence dispositions,
by habitual intercourse.
Rather to individual's
than publick's advantage
operates this opportunity:
viz. means of judging
from whom most
opposition from whom most
support may be expected.

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9.
Of the interests of the whole
community as much knowledge
may be obtained,
as correct and compleat
judgment formed without
as with this carte du pays.

10.
By publication of the
Tactical rules of the
Assembly all exclusive
knowledge of them may
be and ought to be
rendered impossible.

11.
True, Anglice, exclusive
knowledge of this sort
forms always a prospect
of highly lucrative
and honorary office,
viz. Speakership: so lay
in and display a stock
of this knowledge is
accordingly a constant
object of endeavour to one
or two members.

But there, nothing is
the subject of real law,
only of conjectural,
deduced from practice.
Hence the few useful
rules are drowned in
a multitude of mischievous
ones, the offspring
of moral and intellectual
inaptitude.

Will assorted to the
excessiveness of the whole,
is the excessiveness of
the emolument attached
to this part of the
official Establishment.

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Date_1	1822-05-29	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-11
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