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1827. Jany. 6 12
Constitutional CodeCh. IX. Ministers Collectively
§. 3. Number in an office
Not employed

Art. 26. At his accession, Emperor Alexander
found the second several highest situations, all or most of them,
filled by single-seated functionaries. At the end of
a certain length of experience, finding appropriate aptitude
in all it's shapes in the usual abundance degree scanty – mismanagement,
embezzlement, peculation, oppression, corruption
proportionably so, – he looked out for a remedy.
He substituted Boards: Consequences, those above
indicated.

Art. For disorder in all those shapes, appeal all-comprehensive exposure to the inspection of
to the Public Opinion Tribunal, could he have brought
himself to thrown open the road to it, lay and keep open to it the whole field of Official action, would have applied
a remedy, in it's result no less effectual than
in it's operation gentle. But, to an eye viewing the
matter from an elevation such as his, that was a
remedy, that would naturally present itself as worse
than the worst disease.(a)

Note (a)
Art. But though under such a form of Government,
no disorder in that or any other shape
admitts of cure, yet even under that form of Government,
a palliative may be employed, of which
the disorder, even in so all-comprehensive shape,
the disorder is not altogether unsusceptible. Bad, it is true is that form;
but there are degrees of badness. True it is, that
the only case to which the palliative applies, is a
case of exception; viz. that in which he who rules
in name and shew rules also in truth fact and in effect:
Scarcely can it the case have place but in some extraordinary
state of things: where, for example, to a mind
originally well-formed, it has happened happens to have been
led by circumstances to have acquired strength by
exercise: and the circumstances most favorable – if
not the only ones favorable, is are that of adversity in
early youth, on the part of a person born to a throne, as in
the case of Frederic the Great of Prussia, and that of a person raised
by civil connection from humble life to a throne, as in the case of Bonaparte.

Identifier: | JB/039/259/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 39.
Date_1	1827-01-12	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	039	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	259	Info in main headings field	constitutional code
Image	001	Titles	note (a)
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1 / d13 / e13
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	[[notes_public::"not employed" [note in bentham's hand]]]	ID Number	12266
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