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1823. June 11

In the instance of this favored body We have been seeing seen the most corruptive part of the Executive
authority power added to a moiety of the Legislative: we have
also seen added to it a moiety the a portion of Judiciary power, and
that in the highest grade: namely the power exercised over the
Monarch of the Executive – the President. That All this in the
very talk of an acknowledged principle: one of Montesquieu's ipse-dixits: but not that ought with a view to any thing, only with a view to consistency is
this heresy is woth notice.

Mark now the a feigned result, which those who made
a show of subjecting the Executive Chief to eventual punishment
can not consistently speak regard object to as an altogether improbable
one. A treaty not as yet existing with a foreign Nation – say England or France –
is necessary in an important degree become conducive to the security
or at any rate the ulterior prosperity of the United States.
A rival to some rival nation, say France or England it
is of importance to prevent that same treaty from taking having
place. What does the government For the production of
this preventive effect what is the course it takes? It can
not be expecte Of the sum at once necessary and sufficient to divest
on this occasion the President of his appropriate moral
aptitude. Say at a venture £150,000: Dollars 225,000.

Senators in number, sufficient to form a majority.
Each of them has a Son, or what comes to the same thing
a daughter for whom a husband is warranted. For the
child of each one of those his partners in this contract, he
thus provides without any expence to himself: without need
of parting with so much as a Cent of his £ Dollars 225,000 dollars.
Now as to the prevention of such so universally extensively convenient an arrangement,
where shall he find a preventive cause? Certainly if anywhere in the
power of the popular or moral sanction, as exercised in and by the Public Opinion
Tribunal: certainly not in the power of the political or say the legal
sanction, as exercised
by the competent political
Tribunal: for, by the supposition of the supposed
criminals is this same
Tribunal composed: and
it were rather too much
to expect that they
its punishments in themselves.

Identifier: | JB/044/037/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 44.
Date_1	1823-06-11	Marginal Summary Numbering	16-17
Box	044	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	037	Info in main headings field	constitut. code
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e4 / f24
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1822
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1822
Notes public		ID Number	13822
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