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1830. April 20. (written 1823. June 11 T 24
Const. Code

In the instance of this favored body We have been seeing seen the most corruptive moiety part of the
Executive power authority added to a moiety of the Legislative: we have
also seen added to it a portion of the Judiciary power, &
that in the highest grade, namely the power exercised over the Monarch
of the Executive — the Presidt. This All this in the very teeth
of an acknowledged principle: one of Montesquieu's ipse dixits:
not that except with a view to only with a view to consistency is this heresy is worth notice.

Mark now a feigned result which those who
made a show of subjecting the Executive Chief to eventual

punishment cannot 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 in an important degree become conducive to the
security or at any rate the I ulterior prosperity of the U.S.
To some rival nation, say France or England it is of importance
to prevent that same treaty from having taking place. For the production
of this preventive effect what is the course it takes? Of
the sum at once necessary and sufficient to divest on this occasion
the Presidt. of his appropriate moral aptitude. Say at a
venture of £ Stlg 150,000 – Dollars 225,000 – Senators in number sufficient
to form a majority. Each of these has a Son, or what
comes to the same thing a daughter for whom a
husband is wanted. For the child of each one of these his
partners in the contract, the he thus provides without any thing
expense to himself: without need of parting with so
much as a Cent of his 225000 $ dollars. Now as to the
prevention of so universally extensively convenient an arrangement, where
shall he find be found a preventive cause? certainly, If any where,
☞ See the number necessary to validate a Treaty after the accession of the new States.
in the power of the popular or moral sanction, 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, if of the
supposed criminals, is this same Tribunal composed: the
and it were rather too much to expect that they should

sit inflict punishment on themselves.

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Date_1	1823-06-11	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	044	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	098	Info in main headings field	const. code
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