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1823 March 6
Greece. J.B.'s Observations on particular Articles

Mark now the secret perils, which the any every offspring of the wisdom of the
so stiled Legislative Senate has to encounter and surmount
before it can come into existence. Instead of birth comes
abortion of either to the so stiled Executive Council, that is
to say to three out of its five members, or to the President of
the so-stiled Legislative Senate, or to the Principal Senator
Secretary of that same Legislative Senate, it has the misfortune
to be an object of displeasure, or even of indifference.

But the list of its perils is not yet at an end.

When it has passed through them, and (under Article 92) received an official
form existence from the hands of the so stiled Executive Council,
if upon a further view as affairs turn out it comes to be
agreable to them there so it happens that to three of the five Members
of which the so stiled Executive Council is composed it
afterward, comes to be agreable, it is consigned to a sleep, to which there
is no assignable termination. For, says Article 54, "The
"Council causes the laws to be executed by the Ministers." Suppose
them a law, which, to the Minister, by whom execution and
effect should be given it to it happens to be disagreable or that an object
of indifference: if this be the case with so it be likewise to three out of the
five Members of the so stiled Executive Council likewise
or whatsoever to them, if it be ever as agreable in the
, they have but to let the law pass unnoticed, and so long as this is the case with it it sleeps. Suppose it were to
be agreable to the Minister, still if it fails or ceases to be so to
any three of those five great functionaries, I would not give much for any benefit that I rested upon it.

One concluding peril is yet behind. The the
Be the arrangement what it may, in vain might it suit the
arrangement all the views of a majority of the so stiled
Legislative Senate, in vain might it moreover suit moreover the views of the four fifths of
the five Members of the so stiled Executive Council. If the President
of this same Council is not one of them, he has but
to withold for from the Act his signature and there is the end of it.

For by Article 57, "Every Act and decree of the Council is signed
"by the President, countersigned by the Principal Secretary and sealed by the
"Seal of the State."

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Date_1	1823-03-01	Marginal Summary Numbering
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman 1821
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