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1823
Greece. J.B.'s Observations on particular Articles
Now as to the several operations this or that operation taken in detail
1. 2. By Article 30th "Every Act of the Senate is signed by the
"President and countersigned by the principal Secretary. Suppose
then an Act which at the tenor of which does not
suit his views: what is the consequence? He withholds
his signature, and no such Act comes can come into existence.
In this Moreover in this same power he has a sharer
it has been seen in the principal Secretary.
⊞1 2. A second occasion for third second means of applying his the President's particular Veto is next
given him by the President by the next Article,
Article 31. In this Article "The President"
(it says) "transmitts the Resolutions of the Senate to the Council" (meaning
the Executive Council) and submitts them to its approbation."
Good. But is that have they for the Second time been submitted Good. But in the meantime though inexplicably they
have not the less effectually been thus submitted in the first place
to the approbation of this same all powerful functionary.
If they be suit him his views Do they suit his views he transmitts them accordingly;
If they do not suit they reward his views, he keeps them
where they are. A Resolution of this sort, before or after President of so stiled Legislative Senate to President
his signature has been put upon it I this or other most influential member of the so stiled Executive Council –
paying to the most leading or influential member
of the five of which that so stiled Executive Council is composed, and
saying to him in effect , "You see this Resolution: What will you give me if I
"transmitt it to you? this same document – what will you
"give me if I keep it back." The language may be and will naturally
will be, the very quintessence of decorum: and so it may be, while this and nothing else is at the bottoms of it.
⊞1 ⊞ 3. By Article 36, In
after saying that "Every
"Member of the Senate may
"propose a project of law
in writing,
the continuation goes on and says
"which the President refers
"to the examination of the
"a Committee". Suppose
this introduced
in this manner a project of law which
has the misfortune not
to suit the views of this
great functionary, what
becomes of it? He
receives it, omitts to
forward it to any Committee,
and thus is an
end of it. It is thus
stifled in embargo.
In and but be the of 4. So much for the President of the so stiled principal Legislative
Senate. Now for the again for the other Principal Secretary of that same body. In and by Art. 46 he is once more let for an
let for his equal share with the President as above in the negative Resolutions
of the so stiled as above. He (the principal which we have seen the President put in possession of by Article 31
with regard to all Resolutions of that same Senate. "He" (the principal
Secretary) says the Article "receives from the President the Resolutions
"of the Senate and transmitts them to the Council", meaning the
namely the so stiled Executive Council. Thus then, if it be the pleasure of the President chooses
not to put deliver them to the Principal Secretary, or if the Principal
Secretary not to transmitt them to that same Council, there is an end of those same Resolutions.
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