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<p><!-- pencil -->15 Feb. 1810<lb/> | |||
<!-- pencil --><head><del>Parl<hi rend="superscript">y</hi> Reform</del> Sinecures</head></p> | |||
<p>There are two modes of <add>places for</add> keeping up the character of<lb/> | |||
public men: or to speak in more precise as well as<lb/> | |||
authoritative <add>language</add> words for preventing <add>as much as may be</add> <hi rend="underline">the fitness</hi> of <del><gap/></del><lb/> | |||
"<hi rend="underline">great characters</hi>" in <add>their</add> high situations <del>for</del> <add>from</add> being regarded<lb/> | |||
as questionable.</p> | |||
<p>The one is – preventing them <add>as much as may be</add> from doing or suffering<lb/> | |||
any thing whereby their character shall be degraded,<lb/> | |||
<del>where</del> anything whereby <add>such</add> their fitness shall <add>in any degree</add> be disproved.<lb/> | |||
It is for this purpose that amongst other things, I<lb/> | |||
who am but a student in legislation <del>venture</del> with<lb/> | |||
all due diffidence venture to propose that no such situation<lb/> | |||
as that in question – no such situation as that which if<lb/> | |||
any thing has here been proved has been proved to be a<lb/> | |||
degrading one, should in future ever beholden by<lb/> | |||
any such <del>high</del> great or <del><gap/></del> any <del>other</del> more than by any<lb/> | |||
<add><del>there is any of those</del></add> other characters: not to speak of the liberty of the press,<lb/> | |||
in which is included the liberty of questioning their fitness by<lb/> | |||
any one to whom it appears questionable, a liberty which<lb/> | |||
<del><gap/></del> by every person <del>is not</del> must be acknowledged to be<lb/> | |||
some <add>in some <del><gap/></del> sort and degree a</add> restraint upon misconduct, and by some people is<lb/> | |||
thought a useful one.</p> | |||
<p>The other is whatsoever be their conduct – in<lb/> | |||
what manner and degree soever improper – and thence<lb/> | |||
in what degree soever their unfitness for such their high<lb/> | |||
situation is demonstrable, employing <add>applying the</add> "penal inflictions" of<lb/> | |||
the law for <add>to</add> the purpose of preventing all persons from demonstrating<lb/> | |||
any such unfitness or so much as questioning it.<lb/> | |||
This perhaps is the mode <add>place</add> which <del>appears</del> to be exclusive<lb/> | |||
of the other appears well adapted to the purpose, in the<lb/> | |||
eyes of those by <unclear>some</unclear> in such cases and for such purposes<lb/> | |||
such inflictions are called for, and at any rate of those by<lb/> | |||
whom they are administered.<hi rend="superscript">⊞</hi> <note><hi rend="superscript">⊞</hi> And as legislation<lb/> | |||
is at present practiced<lb/> | |||
these are not only among<lb/> | |||
our proficient in <del>legislation<lb/> | |||
but</del> the art of legislation<lb/> | |||
but among the most efficient<lb/> | |||
and influential<lb/> | |||
of our legislators.</note></p> | |||
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15 Feb. 1810
Parly Reform Sinecures
There are two modes of places for keeping up the character of
public men: or to speak in more precise as well as
authoritative language words for preventing as much as may be the fitness of
"great characters" in their high situations for from being regarded
as questionable.
The one is – preventing them as much as may be from doing or suffering
any thing whereby their character shall be degraded,
where anything whereby such their fitness shall in any degree be disproved.
It is for this purpose that amongst other things, I
who am but a student in legislation venture with
all due diffidence venture to propose that no such situation
as that in question – no such situation as that which if
any thing has here been proved has been proved to be a
degrading one, should in future ever beholden by
any such high great or any other more than by any
there is any of those other characters: not to speak of the liberty of the press,
in which is included the liberty of questioning their fitness by
any one to whom it appears questionable, a liberty which
by every person is not must be acknowledged to be
some in some sort and degree a restraint upon misconduct, and by some people is
thought a useful one.
The other is whatsoever be their conduct – in
what manner and degree soever improper – and thence
in what degree soever their unfitness for such their high
situation is demonstrable, employing applying the "penal inflictions" of
the law for to the purpose of preventing all persons from demonstrating
any such unfitness or so much as questioning it.
This perhaps is the mode place which appears to be exclusive
of the other appears well adapted to the purpose, in the
eyes of those by some in such cases and for such purposes
such inflictions are called for, and at any rate of those by
whom they are administered.⊞ ⊞ And as legislation
is at present practiced
these are not only among
our proficient in legislation
but the art of legislation
but among the most efficient
and influential
of our legislators.
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