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1823.
Greece. J.B.s Observations on particular Articles

Take other individuals of the and give to them respectively This done, take four other individuals say for example the four other
Members of the so-stiled Executive Council, and give to them respectively
the functions and powers possessed respectively by the abovementioned
Secretaries. calling Call them Secretaries or Ministers as you please: but
on account of the collateral ideas associated with the two denominations respectively
though my recommendation would be to call them Secretaries calling
them and not Ministers. Having them called By the name Under the appellation of Secretaries they represent
to my imagination the images of so many responsible instruments
of good government, under a free and happy people: under the
name of Ministers, as the corrupt ever mischievous and profligate touts of a Monarch
with leagued or not leagued with a set of sub-despots
in the condition of Aristocracy, having for their sole business
the exercise of depredation and oppression in all their forms
over, and at the expence of the all the other members
of the community who are not sharers with them in the spoils.

Be this as it may, having those five functionaries they
equipped with power, no need have you either of the
five Members of the Executive Council with its five Members
or of your eight Ministers of State.

Note that say that four Secretaries are sufficient, for conducting,
under the President, the whole of the business of the Executive
department in the Anglo-American United States, not merely
four, but even fewer than four, should be sufficient in Greece.⊞ ⊞ Were it not for a
Secretary or a Minister
of Justice
which I should see
reason to add, tho'
no such functionary
was found requisite
in those United States. For
whether it be population or territory that is considered, but more
especially if it be territory, think how small the scale is, upon
which every thing, that has place, has place in Greece, when compared with the immense vast scale upon which population, but more
particularly territory, has place in that only as yet human
seat of good government!

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