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1830 T
Constitut Code

Whatever may have been the effects, the source of
its adoption may be looked for with more probability in another
cause circumstance than in the completion contemplation of these effects. This is authority-begotten
prejudice.

Of all forms of government known at the time of
the establishment of this Constitution the English was the least
bad, and the most lauded. Causes, obstacles, & uninfluencing circumstances
– there are so many groups of circumstances was
the interests of which in man instances there is has been no small difficulty in
discriminating distinguishing from each other; nor is this among the instances in
which the degree of difficulty has been least.

In England there were men behold two Houses. In England the
form of government taken together is good: therefore so is that
part of it: such was the logic.

But if that part why not the remaining part
– the Kingly authority? In sad experience this is that by which
we have been so much annoyed. It is to the King we owed
allegiance: it is against the King we are rebels: it is to please
the King that we are to have our bowels torn out, and burnt
before our face. As to the Lords they seem to be a set of quiet
harmless creatures: Never do they threaten us: they do not but
follow the current & join in what the King bids them join in.

But on this head, what says truth? It has been
already seen, Ch. Sovereignty in whom. Of this third part of
the Sovereignty the constitution interest & nature if there be a difference is still more steadily and immediately irreconcileably
opposite to the interest of the people than is that of
the first.

Moreover wisdom is an article an endowment requisite in
every government: the people and consequently the Agents chosen
by them are but too apt to be deficient in it. But the Second
House then there – it is composed all of Lords: and all Lords as such
are wise, as they are not only bred but born politicians.
Ask Blackstone else: it is on account of the in consideration of their innate wisdom
that they are what they are.

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Date_1	1830	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	044	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	109	Info in main headings field	constitut. code
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f35
Penner		Watermarks
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Corrections	richard doane	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	13894
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