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1824. Novr 4
Constitutional Code. Ch. IX. Ministers Collectively
§. 14 Locable who.

Art.3. The principle Of the system in his of location, the leading features are as follows. A choice
must will at any rate be to be made out of a number of candidates or persons .

According to this constitution, for reasons elsewhere given, by
functionaries, the Loca. By an individual a single person,
and not by a number, the location on every on each occasion must, for reasons elsewhere
given, be made. That person must be can be no other than the person in whom
in case of a bad choice, or diminished by bad conduct relative inaptitude
the responsibility, legal or moral, or both, will fall. Legally The By
therefore he is left free to choose any person. But by a no legal restriction is he therefore prevented from choosing any person at pleasure
at pleasure. But by a moral restriction – by the restr circumscribing eye
moral restrict of the Public Opinion Tribunal the choice is conferred within limits
comparatively narrow. The person or person whose degree of appropriate aptitude in all its several branches, aptitude, as certified by the voice
of a set of apt Judges, are stand highest too but stand highest have been made known. made known to him and everybody:
and thus it is that provision is made for maximization of appropriate aptitude aptitude
its Remains now the minimization of expence. Of these persons, who stand on the scale of aptitude
stand on or near the same level, it is made known who
are willing to serve the public by public competition who these are, who, are in the situations in question
are willing to serve the public on the lowest terms. In and thus it is that reference in respect
of the filling the situation in question the expence is minimized ⊞ ⊞ Provision for moral aptitude is at the same time made by a scrutiny proffered with equal publicity at the same time and in the course of the same examination and with equal publicity. If to, a person who, in the eyes of the whole universal public
is seen to be stand foremost, both in the case of appropriate aptitude,
and in that of cheapness of service taken together, he prefers a person
not distinguished in either way, he does so at the expence it is at his
of his reputation. peril – at the peril of his reputation – that he does so. The choice being thus narrowed,
along with not only expence but with it power of corruption
is minimized: the benefit he thus bestowed is the produce –
not of favour but of right: though not of legally binding
yet of morally binding right.

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Date_1	1824-11-04	Marginal Summary Numbering	3
Box	039	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	092	Info in main headings field	constitutional code
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