JB/106/340/001

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1823 Feby 28
Greece

Love for the constitution formerly love is now contempt
and hatred of the people.

The case of agency on this largest scale, compare it, in
this respect, with the case of agency on an individual scale. By
is would suppose whom would any such supposition be entertained, as that the interest of an individual would be
the better served, if, after appointment made by him of an agent for
the management of a certain portion of his affairs, such agent should
have it in his power to appoint, and should appoint accordingly
sub-agents who should have the power of opposing obstruction, delay
and eventual frustration, to any operation the performance of which
he might claim it for his interest to have performed? and this
without its being ever in his power to remove any such obstruction
so created? By whom would any such supposition be for a moment
entertained, as that a proposition, for the interposition of any such
irremovable instrument of irremovable obstruction could ever have had for its efficient cause a regard for the interest
of the individual in question? for its efficient cause Assuredly
by no one whatsoever.

Thus then, for a principle of incontestable utility, in political the most
extensively public or in the most private management, we have the principle of
absolute and all pervading dependence: of dependence, of namely of all agents, upon their
common principal.

If this explanation has been rather of the longest, and
perhaps rather longer than was necessary and even than it would
have been had there been time for shortening it, the practical importance of it
will be found proportionable. It will operate as a source of the simplicity
carried to its maximum: of simplicity; it will operate as a sponge upon
immense masses of the most mischievous complication in an
endless diversity of forms. It will rid the Greek Constitution
of its Executive Council, of one half of the number of its
Ministers of State. It will rid it of its eleven Members of the
Judiciary power, established by Articles 85 and 86.

Identifier: | JB/106/340/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 106.
Date_1	1823-02-28	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	106	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	340	Info in main headings field	greece
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e10 / f14
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	john dickinson & c<…> 1813
Marginals		Paper Producer	a. levy
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1813
Notes public		ID Number	34928
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