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1827 Jany. 7
Constitutional CodeNote (a)
Ch. IX. Ministers collectively
§. 2. Minister and Subdepartments
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Quere whether to employ this under title Number 4
the irresponsibility having here a different cause.

Note (a)

(a) This mischief is in this case aggravated, and the
system of corruption and despotism and misrule perfected
by another arrangement, which belongs in a direct way not to the
purpose of the present Section but which matter of by reason of the magnitude of its influence in respect of this same purpose
can not be altogether omitted. This is: that the
Judicatory in question – the only one which has cognizance
of delinquency in the abovementioned shape is a judicatory not
having any real – nothing but merely apparent existence.
The sole authority competent to access being
the House of Commons – the most influential of the two branches
of the Legislature, and the sole authority competent to
judge being the other the consequence is that in the in
each instance so long as the judiciary function continues in
exercise the exercise of the legislative function is
of this state of things.

One consequence is – that it would require no more than a
very small number of trials in a year or according to circumstances
no more than one such trial to absorb the whole
quantity of the time that is or can be employed in legislation
in the exercise of the legislative function. Take
for instance the two last trials that have had place for
offences of this description – namely that of Warren
Hastings for offences in British India, and that of Lord
Viscount Melville for Offences corruption in the Office of Treasurer
of the Navy. Days occupied of the time of
the House of Commons in the case of Hastings  : in
the case of Lord Melville, . the necessary to To fill up those
blanks would require more time than would be paid for
by the result – a circumstance that which does away with supersedes the importance
of it is – that it would depend altogether upon the colleagues and
confederates of the delinquent whether the time necessary to the purpose shall should be allowed.
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Identifier: | JB/039/255/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 39.
Date_1	1827-01-07	Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	039	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	255	Info in main headings field	constitutional code
Image	001	Titles	note (a)
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1 / d9
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1826
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1826
Notes public	"not employed"	ID Number	12262
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