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1832. Feb. 27
Greece. J.B.s Observations on particular Articles

Be those rules what they may, I proceed to show why in the first
place this body is in my view of the matter useless.

It is itself composed of five Members. By those five (per Article 20) are to
be appointed eight other functionaries, under the name of Ministers.
Number of functionaries thus belonging to the Executive department, adding
the two grades together, 13. To those same five belongs moreover (per Article 21) the
power of placing functionaries in all the other employments of
government, Note that by whom they shall respectively be liable to which by Article 67 is added the power of displacing them.
to be displaced is not mentioned,

Now of those thirteen, eight at least are I say altogether
useless. For proof I appeal as above to particular experience: the experience
afforded by the only Constitution that ever really had for its object or end
in view the greatest happiness of the greatest number: I mean the
Constitution of the Anglo-American United States. Here as
at the head of the Executive Department you have a single person
the President of the United States. To him alone belongs is the direction
of the whole business of that department. To him belongs the
direction to be given to, the command over, the whole Military force of the
Country by Sea and Land.⊞ ⊞ Constitution Art. To him belongs the placing and at
his pleasure the displacing of the four Members stiled Secretaries
by whom in subordination to the President and the Legislative Assembly stiled the Congress the whole civil power of the confederacy is exercised:
namely 1. Secretary of State. 2. Secretary of War. 3. Secretary of Navy.
4. Secretary of Finance. If the business of your the Greek Nation is but
managed carried on with a degree of aptitude not being widely distinct and success not very much
from below that with which it is carried on in that confederated Commonwealth,
you the Grecians will be a happy people. Nothing approaching to
it has yet been seen anywhere else, no: nor ever will be, in
any other condition than that of imitating it: Now then, supposing
my advice on the subject asked for, it would be this.
Take some one individual – for example the President of
that same Executive Council give him the power possessed by
in the Anglo-American Commonwealth by the functionary whose title is President of the United States.
Take

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