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6 Novr 1814
Logic
as whether in pursuit of those public ends in that department of government whichever th
avowedly the objects of pursuit, or in pursuit of the personal
or other private ends of those in whose hands the public powers
in question are reposed.
In this case it in so far as the ends in pursuit
of which the matter of good and evil is thus administered
are of the personal or other private and therefore sinister
ends just mentioned, it is in the character of matter
of corruption that it operates: but how with how ill
so ever the design and or effect is with which it is thus made
to operate towards the po giving to human men's conduct the
direction so endeavoured to be given, the effect with which of which it is productive
it operates is not the less that the same as where
in the char being in its character and under the name and in the character of a
sanction it is avowedly employed, it is avowedly applied
to the giving to mens conduct the sort of direction above
mentioned or endeavoured to be given to it when employed
under in the name and character of matter of punishment or
matter of reward.
By the Treasury Board under the direction of the first
Commissioner suppose one office given or promised to be given
to a Member of Parliament for the purpose power of engaging
this on all occasions his vote according to the direction
prescribed by that member of the administrative department.
It is The sanction by the form of which the
conduct of the direction in question is then given to the
functionary in question can not with propriety be
termed the legal sanction: but to its being termed the
political sanction no objection seems capable of being made.
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