★ Keep up to date with the latest news - subscribe to the Transcribe Bentham newsletter; Find a new page to transcribe in our list of Untranscribed Manuscripts
1823
Greece. J.B's Observations on particular Articles.
to which the appellation of Legislative Senate is
exclusively attributed, I see them at work upon the
appropriate moral aptitude – the political probity,
of the several Members of the so styled Legislative
Senate: and, in the first place, upon the comparatively
few to whom their preeminence in the faculty
of public speaking will secure the leading part share
in the conduct of every part of the public business.
For some time perhaps in the breasts case of the
majority, the value of his share in the universal
interest may in the breast of each man outweigh
the value of any particular and sinister interest
by which he may be solicited to seek to gratify it
at the expence of the universal interest. I mention
this state of things that it may be seen not
to have been overlooked: but it is not in the nature
of man especially a of man in any such situation,
that it should have place to any considerable
extent for any long continuance. These
halcyon days being at an end, what then is the state
of things that follows them? It is one that gives
birth to a league between the 5 Members of the
30
Identifier: | JB/106/357/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 106.
|
|||
---|---|---|---|
1823 |
|||
106 |
constitutional code |
||
357 |
greece jb's observations on particular articles |
||
001 |
|||
copy/fair copy sheet |
1 |
||
recto |
c3 / e3 / f31 |
||
cc1 |
|||
34945 |
|||