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1823 March 2
Greece. J.B.'s Observations on particular Articles

(1)
In this or that Election District, say even in any number of
Election Districts, suppose the Mahometan votes to out number the
Christians, still no real inconvenience can ensue, so long as in the
Representative Assembly the non Christians did not at any time out-number the
Christians. If, in this or notwithstanding however, any apprehensions on this ever
should notwithstanding be entertained, a very simple and inoffensive remedy might be provided; namely by
making the age at which a Mahometan is permitted to vote, by any
number of years that
might be thought fit, more
advanced than that at
which a Christian is admitted
to vote.

(2)
Strange it were, if by such treatment, the Mahometan were
not rendered good Citizens. By the faculty of voting even supposing
no Mahometans are were allowed to sit as Representatives, they would be
raised to a situation of high in dignity as well as security, in comparison of the best highest
which any of them can occupy even in a Mahometan country, at present. To no Christians
could in that case any Mahometan be, as such, an object of contempt.

In the meantime and until that happy change shall have
been acknowledged to have taken place, one precaution is suggested
by the indispensable case of self-defence. The Of the
Christian portion of the population the male part will, I take for
granted, be trained, without any exception, in the use in the military
stile to the use of arms: trained, in the European form of military
exercise, in the use of the musquet and the bayonett in companies
and battallions. The operations performed in the course of this exercise being in its their nature public, more
of both portions of the sort race might, without the hardship of domestic
inquisition, be interdicted from the right of partaking of raking part in
any such exercise. they might even be interdicted from being having fire-arms of the
length of guns musquets in their possession. But, as to swords and
pistols, these they might, it should seem, without danger allow have the liberty of keeping in their houses and wearing about their persons, in the character of instruments for
self-defence. Arms, capable of being carried in secret, and by
that means and as instruments of aggression, such as daggers
and pistols, of a size capable might, such of them as were small enough to be kept concealed,
might be comprized in the interdiction.

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Date_1	1823-03-02	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	106	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	382	Info in main headings field	greece. jb's observations on particular articles
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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