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1823. July 10.
Constitut. Code3o
III Rationale
Ch. 5. Constitutive
[Universal Dislocative
why]
[Corruption]

2
Thus then is corruption
planted, knowingly, in the
Constitution, by the very hand
which, with it's utmost
force, is labouring to
exclude it: corruption, the
continual tendency of
which (he sees) is to
destroy it. For an indispensable
remedy, he lodges
in it at the same time
this universal dislocative.

2
For this remedy there might
not be such absolute need
on two suppositions.
1. That under this Constitution,
prohibition, with punishment
would be an
adequate preventive —

2. Any other Constitution
could exist, having no
corruption in it or
But neither supposition
is true.

2
1. Punishment is compleatly inapplicable.
1. Absurd would be the
prohibitive ordinance to the
Minister. Give not any
office to any individual
connected with any member
by interest self regarding
or sympathetic.
2. Neither of the one nor the
other could domestic relationship
be taken for
conclusive and exclusively
receivable evidence.
3. Absurd it would be to
make incapacitation
of all his connections
from all other offices, a
necessary accompanimt.
to the location of an
individual in the Legislative
office.

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Inadequate to the degree
of absurdity the interdiction
of contracts to this
effect. The
of corruptive influence
is the
expectation — the inducement
afforded by it: and to
produce this expectation,
no ___________ is necessary see above.

2.
Without contract, such
expectation has place to
an extent altogether boundless:
much beyond any
which individual contracts,
in any number,
could produce.

2
Note here the natural
extent of this expectation,
note the classes susceptible
of it.
1. Members of the Legislature
all, with their
respective connections of
all kinds.
2. Prime Minister's
connections.
3. Subministers heads
of the several Sub
Departments — their connections.
4. Connections of all
functionaries having
locative power in all
these Sub Departments.

2
II. With so little corruption,
no other Constitution
could exist.

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