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Vesting the power of displacing in different hands
from the power of appointing
This idea I take from a very ingenious
state paper published in America. The use of this arrangement is ++ The title of it the original paper is Result
of the Convention of Delegates
holden at Ipswich in the
County of Essex, who were
deputed to take into consideration
the Constitution
and form of government
proposed by the Convention
of the State of Massachusetts
Bay Apr. 29 1778.
Republished in Almon's
Rememberancer No 84.
p. 223.
A man's pride is it is then interested in not condemning
Almon'sRememberancer
p. 22 No 84 p. 223 his own device Independent of affection He will therefore be apt to be more
backward in displacing the man giving ear to any
complaints against the subordinate person appointed than another
person would, and very probably than he ought.
This consideration will help account for the incapacity whatever
bad conduct is to be observed in monarchical
states when great powers are given to
single persons in subordinate stations without witness
or contract other than that of the person to
whom they owe their office. But The less the share
is which any one person has in the appointment
of such subordinate, the less strongly is his
pride inherited in the affair: insomuch that when
and when the appointment by in virtue the number of hands
it is vested in stands upon the footing of a popular
election, this source of illusion seems scarcely
to have place.
This is a reason it is to be observed, for why another
besides them the person appointing should have the
power of displacing, not against why he should have it should not be converted when
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