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1823. Feb. 27
Greece

Looking out for a ruling principle, On this occasion then, what I ask is – What is the design and use
in so far as it has any, of the Executive department? The Answer,
I know of but one; and that is – to give execution and effect
to the will declared by a superior authority, department, namely that
to which is generally given the name of the Legislative.

The Greek gov As to the Greek government Under the Constitution in question
Government it is out of all question a Commonwealth Representative Democracy. Now in
a each every such Commonwealth I behold the superior
respectable three powers authorities one under another such of them meaning in the case of
being supposed superior that set of functionaries which is supreme in its own
grade. in fact So many of those powers authorities as there are thus standing in a line subordination
so many functions one to another so many situations may be spoken of as existing, or so many
Departments. In the first and highest place situation stand the members
of that Constitutive department which I stile the Constitutive,
next below them, the members of that which I stile the Operative.
Constitution is a term of relations: the department to which
it bears relation and reference is the that same Operative. The To the
members of the Constitutive department it belongs, then to choose and place
in their situations and at certain intervals, if at this place such be their pleasure to displace
the several members of the Operative department.⊞
⊞ Under the business
which I consider as
belonging to this same
Operative department
I consider as included
the whole of the business
of government, one By the The Under this
here same Operative Department it is belongs included the whole business of the
State <unclear> number taken in the aggregate it belongs to do
whatsoever business is done in it with the of that which
part when excepted, namely that which consists in determining who the individuals are by whom all the rest of the business
shall be done: Suffer for argument sake the members of this being understood, that in the business of
the whole community all of them with exception possessing and the Operative department is are included that of the legislative and that of the
the rights of by the suffrage to the choice of those by Executive.
whom the whole of the Operative power in that same grade shall be exercised. Would the one
then appertain would the government be without subjects? No such
thing. The sole same few individuals who every day year but one
are subjects, and without one day subjects to every purpose but one would
on that one day, and to that one be given to sharers in the power of government, under that department
to which all
others are, or at any rate are meant or professed to be subordinate.

Identifier: | JB/106/335/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 106.
Date_1	1823-02-27	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	106	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	335	Info in main headings field	greece
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e6 / f9
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman 1821
Marginals		Paper Producer	admiral pavel chichagov
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1821
Notes public		ID Number	34923
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