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1823. Feb. 26
Greece

Thus necessary is the strictest and most absolute dependence
of the conduct of the subordinates on the will of superiors as between the legi members of the legislative
department in the
one part and those
of the constitutive in
the other part.

But for this same reason the of the
conduct of the functionaries belonging to the Executive department not less so is it as between the conduct of the members of the Executive
with declared will of the functionaries belonging to the legislative department and the declared will of the members of the Legislative department.
department to should and Why? because exactly proportioned to the degree of strictness
with which the conduct of the functionaries belonging to the Executive strictness of the dependance of the conduct of this department which stands third in rank
department is on the will of those belonging to the Legislative department on the declared will of the members of its immediate superordinate – the department
with which the degree of strictness with which the conduct of second in rank will be the strictness of its dependance on the
thus members of the functionaries belonging to the Executive department is dependent on necessarily presumed will of the members of the superior department of all –
of that department
so constituted that
the interest of all its
members in the same
thing with the universal
interest.
the will of the functionaries belonging to the constitutive department is In the Executive Department let the number of grades one another
above interest and those whose will is by the be ever so great, the demand for the strictest possible dependence
spirit of the Constitutive the standard of reference to which that possible, and the reason for it will remain unchanged.
is under the name of President Suppose for example, the a single Functionary at the head of it, and
under an appropriate name say in the language of the Anglo-American
Union the President, occupying to himself the highest grade. Immediately
under him in the next grade give
functionaries
by the name of Secretaries
or Ministers,
placed at the head
of so many sub-departments.
Landed branch of the military force. Naval
branch of the military
force. Justice Foreign
Affairs, to which in the case of Greece add Justice and Finance:
each with others under
him in so many
different grades forming
a chain of indefinite
length composed of
so many links as
there are grades.

In a word As to the necessity mischief resulting from
any deficiency in the strictness of dependence, the civil the non-military departments stands in principle on the same footing as the
Military. The only difference is that which regards term. To what
purpose is the Lieutenant General added to the General, the Major
General to the Lieutenant General the Brigadier General to the
Major General and so on down to the lowest grade? Is it that,
by the occupant of each inferior grade, obstruction should and delay may be opposed
to the will manifested by his immediate superior and so on till
up to the will of those who have no superior? No: but that with grades
certainty, and if possible even with greater promptitude, the superior
wills and at length the superior will of all, may in each instance, receive execution and effect.

If the whole power of As to To return to the operative department were detached taken in the aggregate. If
from the by the possessors of the power of the Constitutive department,
the power by them would the effect be nothing the power, given by detached from their own and given by them to
the members of the Operative
department, and in the
first instance to the
legislative branch of it
were not thus detached
and parted with, no
power at all would they
be able to exercise. True it is that As to
the remnant which after the detachment thus made, remains to them, there is nothing of splendor in it; but such
by itself splendid but being as it is, it is found to answer to
perfection the great and universal purpose – the purpose of all who
share in it: So again of the they are therefore not losers but gainers, even
in the article of power, by the detachment sacrifice, if such it can be called, which they thus make.

Identifier: | JB/106/339/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 106.
Date_1	1823-02-26	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	106	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	339	Info in main headings field	greece
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e9 / f13
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	34927
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