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1824 June 19
Constitutional Code
For Of lessening or doing away or lessening inequality there
are two modes: diminishing that which is less substracting from the lesser, and adding
to the greater; substraction does not require expence; addition
does. Adding Substraction is therefore the rule which in
the first instance should the principle of frugality requires to be employed as far as it will go, and
as far as it can be employed without preponderant detriment
to the good of the service in other shapes respects.
One subject Two correspondent subject matters of
expence are presented by the word power: – the pleasure attendant on the comfort of
exercising of power, and the discomfort pain attendant on the
act of submitting oneself compliance in relation to it ones self to the exercise of it.
This expence is not only inseparable from
this branch of the public service, but greater, as above, in this
than in any other. Yet even in this case, in means of reducing
equa the inequality are not altogether wanting: witness
that which is afforded by France. For command and conception Suppose only two ranks class
sections of the aggregate body the one the obeying the other the commanding: of the two parts
were acted by the two bodies, each parts acted by
each for the same length of time, that which commenced one day
Suppose only two individuals and two only no more barring their relation
to one another, and acting the two parts alternately, each
for the same length of time, Castor and Pollux like one commanding one day: the
other the next, here supposing the how rigorous so are the exercise
of the powers might be here all inequality would be done
away altogether. In an army, even suppose aptitude on
the part of all equal such abolition of equality even if advisable would not in practice be
possible: for before it would come to their turns to command
some would die: and were it only on this account the inequality would be the greater the greater the number
of the army those functionaries the greater would be the inequality.
If in principle here it might be equality might be perfected
if time was made to receive the aid of Fortune: if priority
in point of time were determined by lot.