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1827 Jany. 6. Constitutional Code. Ch.IX. Ministers Collectively S.3. Number in an Office

For this purpose, the appropriate means
are already sufficiently known and approved by
experience: a lion's mouth, so the phrase has
been, into which, whatsoever letter note of information
is dropped, shall be sure of finding its way into
his hands. But, will he have at all times leisure
and inclinations to look at the whole of it?
This will depend upon accidents. But if the case
be is, and is at the same time be known to be — that
the letters thus addressed will be drawn out by
lot — the effect, in the way of prevention, by intimidation,
will be little if at all less than if
it were known that no one of them would escape
his eye. A device, in this case to be guarded
against, is by, or by procurement of, one individual,
letters draft in, as if without conceit, by several individuals:nor to the multitude of these counterfeits can any determinate limits be assigned.
As to calumny, one condition there
is, by which danger from that source would effectually
be excluded: this is that, on pain of neglect
or even punishment, the name and address
of the informant he attached to the information:
for, in that case, no mischief could be produced
without being effectually responsible for it. Whether
from a person unknown, any such information
should be admitted to a chance of being attended
to — is a question that seems that scarcely capable
of being answered with propriety by any general
rule. The difficulty will be for the rule in question,
exposed as he is to delusion by an abovementioned device, so to master himself, as to make sure that
information so circumstanced, shall constitute be employed by him asa
ground, for examination merely, and never for decisions.
nor, in this case, will it be easy to prevent
the giving to an information derived from a high source
the appearance of being derived, as above, from various sources;

sources; and that in
a multitude to which
no determinate limits
can be assigned.

Identifier: | JB/039/261/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 39.
Date_1	1827-01-06	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	039	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	261	Info in main headings field	constitutional code
Image	001	Titles	note (a) to art. 27 continued
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c3 / d15 / e15
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	12268
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