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Const. Code

1830 April 20 (written May 30 1823) T 22

Of this institution then, upon the face of this statement, what
are the effects.

I. On the side of good not any.

II. On the side of evil the following —

1. In the Legislative department, delay to all measures
whatsoever: delay without assignable or probable usefulness.

2. Complete frustration or prevention of useful arrangements — in an indefinite
multitude of instances: and without assignable or probable usefulness.

3. Danger perpetual of a veto to useful arrangements in relation
to foreign powers, by corruption administered by the hands of the
agent of foreign powers.

4. In the exercise of the locative power with relation to
most of the functions offices contained in the National Official Establishment
location of less apt in preference to more apt functionaries individuals: probable cause of
mislocations, mistrusting, agreement with the President for the division of the
whole aggregate mass of the the correspondent patronage: each choosing the to one less apt
connection — connections which by the tie of self-regarding
interest or by the tie of sympathy in preference to the more
apt individuals, whom the President the Executive Chief would
have chosen, had the weight of an undivided responsibility —
the only efficient responsibility — rested on his single shoulders.

5. Waste of the public money — to wit by the whole amount
of the pay. Say, of each Senator 8 dollars a day for the 365 days in the year
2920 dollars, or 657 £ Sterling: for all 48, Dollars 140160, £ Stg. 31536

6. Complication, want of simplicity. the

7. Want of transparency parence; want of 2notoriety and 3intelligibility —
To the bulk of the Constitutional Code a useless quantity added:
therefore to the thence from the facility of bearing the tenor of it in mind, defalcation made so between so likewise
from the probability of the formation of a correct crude conception of
its tendency and of its good and bad points, in the mind
of each individual citizen.

Identifier: | JB/044/096/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 44.
Date_1	1823-05-30	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	044	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	096	Info in main headings field	const. code
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f22
Penner	richard doane	Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	13881
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