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1823. March 1
Greece. J.B.s Observations on particular Articles
Having given warning By Of any warning given against open negatives upon
the power of the people it may of use to add a like the service rendered would be very incomplete
without the addition of a like warning against latent ones. With or without design, a negative of this
latent sort may be seen given in and by several of the
Articles of the Greek Constitution: namely Articles 24, 25, 30, 31 36, 46, 54, 57.
In regard to any such negative, such veto as it has been called
Of such divers negative upon the of a power in the first place one general effect of it.
lodged in the first instance in other hands an effect
This is – the investing the possession of the negative with the
faculty of possession have obtaining in the way of compromise
a share in that same original faculty the every power to which it is applicable:
which share he employs applies of course to his own
purposes, whatever they may happen to may be.
Now for the In this latent form a negative
is given to be the proposed arrangement or measure what
it may, a negative upon it is given to every functionary
in by whom it is rendered necessary to its excluding on pain of its being of no effect, this or that act
that same act or other be must have been done in relation to it. If this
Now then if so it be that the functionary in whom this power of controul has been conferred is
functionary be in a state of perfect official dependence,
a mere Copying Clerk or Scribe suppose whose continuance
in his situation is altogether and at all times dependent upon the will of some
higher functionary, the possible negative thus given may perhaps
not be in little or no danger of being bestowing an
official one. But, if so it be that the functionary to whom it is thus gifted is
given is given be a person in a situation of establis declared
or virtual independence, in that this case it is not rendered the
less efficient but rather the more efficient a negative by
its not being a an openly declared one.
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