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1824 Oct. 10
Constitutional Code U.S.Appendix
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Ch. VI. Legislature
§. 1. Composition: or House, one.

As yet no evil appears in a sensible shape: and evil
supposing it never to assume a sensible shape is but an empty
name. On the other hand thus much is , to wit
that in a sensible shape evil to any amount may have been
produced by, and yet not be traceable to this cause: say
for instance production of a needless use: or ill success to any
amount in a needful one.

If in this portion of this best of all making useful constitutions Governments by means of this feature in this best of all as yet established Governments
an instance of or and degree of official a degree of inaptitude not to be matched perhaps in the
worst of European Government in existence can be produced,
some practical proof may perhaps be regarded or as exhibited of this inability
to say no worse of this part of the edifice structure of the government.
In the Year 1802 the United States has a "public minister" at
Paris – at the Court of Bonaparte. French is not only the language
of that country, but the diplomatic language of Europe. This Public
Minister by whose conference not to speak of the expected intrigues were to be carried on necessarily
with the appropriate functionaries in that country but incidentally
with those of every other – who was he? A man who could neither
speak nor understand a word of French, and who to whom conversation
even in his own language was rendered different by
deafness.

French is not If at this or that Court the Union has
public Ministers of the same or different ranks more than one, what it
might be expected is that at least some one of them should be
able to converse in French. This expectation would not in every instance
be fulfilled.

French is not everything. Of two candidates suppose
one consummate in the matter of the French language art of conversing in French, but deficient
in all other points of aptitude, the other consummate in all points of
aptitude except this, the preference could not it is true with much strength
of reason be claimed for the adept in French. But suppo in any same degree suppose
a man qualified in all other points, by his being in a correspondent degree well qualified in this point, he would not be upon the whole be rendered the less qualified.

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Date_1	1824-10-10	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-4
Box	044	Main Headings	constitutional code
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