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1823. May 28 Constitut. Code

The efficacy of this law depends on the Public opinion Tribunal
My care has been to the subject this tribunal in a
more effectual manner.

Note here how different & disparate— how heterogeneous
with reference to each other— are the subject matters
of the two laws thus lumped together in company with so many
others in the same clause of the same section of the same
article. Note the confusion of mind, the want of sufficient
attention. Note in a word the marks of precipitation betrayed by this one
item in a body of law, which had for its framers the select quintessence
of the appropriate aptitude in the aggregate of all
the States.

True it is that in this case the drawing of demarcation
lines was a work not as in the other case of
supererogation but of necessity. For in this state the
description of the cases on which the particular States should
not legislate and of those on which the aggregate general government
(having authority over all the State) should not legislate, was matter of necessity.
All that these examples are here were brought to show is that in that
seat of choicest wisdom, the deficiency in that cleanness of
conception, without which evil is so much more apt than
good to be the result of demarcation lines having for
their object the prevention of misrule on the part of the
fairly chosen and effectually responsible Agents of the people.

Identifier: | JB/044/127/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 44.
Date_1	1823-05-28	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	044	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	127	Info in main headings field	constitut. code
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c8 / f53
Penner	richard doane	Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	13912
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