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Greece. S.B's observations on particular Articles 2

2 Executive Council

this same Legislative Senate, with the exception
of the such temporary & partial concealment as it may be
deemed necessary to give now and then, to such
parts of the business as shall on that account be
assigned to Sittings on that account denominated accordingly
secret, whatever degree of publicity can be given,
will be. On the other hand, in the case situation of the
so styled Executive Council, with its number of Members no greater than 5.. I see no such responsibility,
consequently no such ground for confidence:
on the contrary, but too strong a ground for complete
distrust, a complete want withholding of confidence. In
them I see the Members of an everlastingly secret
Conclave: a set of men engrossing in their own
hands the whole of that power which is conferred
by the uncontroled disposal of the matter of good
in all its shapes applicable in the character of matter
of reward to the remuneration, which is as much
to say of to the purchase, of service in all imaginable
shapes to the aggregate of their several particular &
sinister interests, at the expence and at by the sacrifice
of the universal interest. With the whole of this
power in their hands, with the addition of a share
in Legislative power equal to that of the body to

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Date_1	1823	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	106	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	356	Info in main headings field	greece jb's observations on particular articles
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