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1827 March 18
Guatemala J.B. to Del Valle Letter II

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With a view to the procurement of Books for your intended
library, he having shewn me a list of those you had desired him to procure I gave him an introduction to Bossanger Gorives at
Paris, whose probity and public spirit had been made
known to me by my own experience added to a more extensive
experience on the part of my Brother and his family.

At a time when the state of your country
in respect of security for person and property are involved
in so dark a cloud of uncertainty, he will, I am inclined
to think my friend you
deem it a matter of prudence so suspend the transmission of the above or any other
costly articles, and to await the arrival of more encouraging
intelligence.

For the advantage of bringing to view that which
is most simple before bringing to view that which is complicated,
my Constitutional Code has not comprised any
arrangements for the use of a federative government.
am sorry if regret I consider This circumstance is matter of regret to me, as it
renders my system of arrangements applicable with so much the less
advantage to your State: [+]
However so far as
they go they will
answer the purpose
as well as if, from
the first, it had been with a view
to that same state of
things that they had
been contrived. Over
each of the districts
which are the results
of the primary division
of the whole territory
of the state my Code
establishes a Legislature
having to render my which being subordinate to the
body which legislates over the whole territory, I denominate a Sublegislature.
To constitute these Sublegislatures authorities the supreme authorities in your several
independent but unfederated States would only require
some additional arrangements made for that particular
purpose: additions with little other change. Unfortunately, in the very nature of the case, this
is by far the most difficult task in legislation. I am in
receipt of Your letter. I shall will have the effect will in a more particular manner
turn my thoughts to it. The difficulty is created by the
difficulty of drawing precise lines of demarcation between
the authorities in the several confederated States, and the authority
of the central Government. But this difficulty is
less and less in proportion as the distinction is clearer and
clearer between the fields of authority in a non-federal
State considered in itself: whatever I have done in this way (and
my
my utmost attention has
been bestowed upon it)
will so far be of use to
you in your State,
any thing I can say can be of use Be this as it may, for the
present, the best thing by far
which you can do, is to adopt as far as applicable, what has place in the Anglo-American United States.

Identifier: | JB/012/383/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 12.
Date_1	1827-03-18	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	012	Main Headings
Folio number	383	Info in main headings field	guatemala jb to del valle letter ii
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d3 / e3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	4444
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