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1827 May 20
Penal or Civil Code. Plan of the Work
§. 1. Offences collectively
§2 § 10. Offences affectingTrust
1. State of relations in the case of public trust.
I. Under Representative Democracies
1. Trust-founder say trustor, the Constitutive authority, that is to say
the aggregate of those members of the community in whose hands injunctive authority resides.
2. Intended benefitees the whole number of the members of the political
community in question.
Trustees The whole number of the persons composed under the name of f
public functionaries.
4. Trust-disturber it may happen to any person of
any one of the above three descriptions to be: but the persons by
whom it is most natural that an act or say an an operation of this effect or of this tendency are most
likely to should be performed are the trustees themselves, who
thereby to the character of disturbers add that of betrayers of their
trust.
II. Under an absolute Monarchy.
In this case no such fictitious on the part and at
the charge of the highest functionary no such fictitious entity
has place, included in the essence of a trust, is the
idea existence of re obligation and correspondent responsibility.
In this case for example are the English Mon
Government Monarchy and the Monarch in England if the
maxim The King can do no wrong be admitted to form
part of the fiction called the constitution alias the matchless
Constitution. That which if he were not King would be wrong
being converted into right by his doing it.
But True it is that once upon a time, the King that
now is being at that time Prince Regent or about to be Prince
if not Prince Regent, has appeared and about to be Prince
Regent and thereafter King was said to have in some pr
Letter of his spoken of himself as being or about to be a
trustee for the benefit of the people. But by the script in question this script and
being a public act, amounted to nothing He therefore no obligation could be imposed. Ever since that letter was written if ordered any such letter was in written.
The Constitution therefore continues to be what it was: a Constitutive Monarchy⊞ a Constitution by which
no obligation is imposed
upon the Monarch: and
to which an ob
and in virtue of which
he is at liberty to do
with every man male person and
every female person, and
every thing which in other respects would be their property, whatsoever at any time he pleases.
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