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1824. Feby. 27 +
Constitutional Code. for Greece

Ch. XXIII Sub Legislatures
§. Observations
Federative system

March 17 The marginals of this — not the text sent by
Lord Byron's Messenger to Stanhope or Lord Byron.

On Chapter XXIII or XXVI and last of the Constitutional Code

Observations

1
Form of government is here
supposed simple in contradistinction
to federative; to add to a simple
one is to subtract from a
complicated one But as to Greece
a natural and probably
general conception

For Electing of the Legislature of Greece. The Form of Government — shall it be simple or federative?

As between a simple and a federative form of government
the supposition on which the present Code is grounded is that
of a simple one. For the more simple the object the more easy it is to conceive: and to add to a
simple form is more
easy than to subtract
from a complicated one.
At the same time in
the case of a regenerated Greece
one altogether natural conception/notion and it is believed a
pretty general one, is
that a federative form
will be the most eligible
and perhaps the only
practicable one
A natural and general concept is that a
federative form of government in contradistinction to a simple one
as delineated in the present code will be if not the only practicable
one is at least the most capable one for Greece

In this view I am using my endeavours to procure find and
transmitt for the purpose of transmission a copy of the
Federative Constitution of the Anglo-American United States

2
Among the reasons which
applied to the U.S. there
are those which apply not
to Greece: at least with
equal force

The same reasons however do not a Of Among the reasons which applied to the case of American States
several precept ones are however those which have no
exact application to the case of Greece.

3
1. In U.S. at the
time of the original Confederacy
when 13 out
of the existing 26 joined
in the revolt, the habit
of legislature had in the
instance of each been
established from the first.
Hence without great
and imprudence
and altogether
sacrifice of power none
but a federative sort had
been formed.

1. In America, at the time of the original confederacy
of the original thirteen States also concerned in the revolt
against the Government of the mother country, the habit
of independent Legislature was not only already formed but had been so from
the first plantation of each colony. Without a vast surrender
of power to a vast amount — a sacrifice to which the repugnance
to which is deeply planted in every human breast no
simple government — no government other than a federative
one could have been formed.

2. In truth for want of local knowledge, in any
countries so widely distant from, and many of them having been in little communication
with each other, such simple form of government would have been practicable
prompt moreover The whole confederacy being engaged in the
struggle against the murder every where threatening murders
if one every separate colony had been in desirous of surrendering
its authority to a central government — no such
central government could have found itself in a situation
to act.

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Date_1	1824-02-27	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-3
Box	042	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	838	Info in main headings field	constitutional code for greece
Image	001	Titles	observations
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1823
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	admiral pavel chichagov
Corrections	george bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1823
Notes public	[[notes_public::"march 17 the marginals of this not the text sent by lord byron's messenger to stanhope or lord byron" [note in bentham's hand]]]	ID Number	13761
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