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first Draught
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Constitutional Code.
Ch. VI. Legislative.
§. Relocable who.
Rationale
1.
Quest 1. Non-relocability,
why
Ans. 1. From undiscontinued
relocability,
evil in all shapes:
good in none.
2.
2. to public, all good
expected from it is secured
by Continuation Committee
with addition,
and without evil.
3.
3. To public, the evil
has for immediate cause
relative inaptitude in
all shapes.
4.
4. To deputies, evil
none; because
disappointment none: those
whom the Constitution
finds located excepted:
whence the grand
obstruction.
5.
5. Of the evil immediate
cause, relative
inaptitude in all shapes
6.
6. taken together:
for, by relocability
the first location is
made tantamount
to do. for life:
non-relocation, to dislocation.
The first locatee pleads
appropriate services:
neither now nor ever can
now or ever can be
locatee plead any: by
no negative inaptitude
can a man be ousted:
only by flagrant
positive. Thus, the first
year; by every other, the
hold is strengthened.
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Ch. VI. Legislative.
§. Relocable who.
Rationale
67.
7. Next are moral in
particular. All will
be corrupted. Ordinary
price that of the mutes:
higher & higher those of
the speakers & managers.
8.
Corruptors, the Prime
Justice Minister, chief
givers of good gifts —
2. Leading Electors.
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II. 6 8.
9. Matter, by expectation of
which, deputies will be
corrupted. Offices for their
connections.
9.
10. Matter, expectation of
which Ministers will be
corrupted by, expectation
of power and emolument
encreased, responsibility
diminished.
11.
11. Matter, by expectation
of which, leading Electors
will be corrupted by
services rendered to them
in their individual
capacity.
1. Minor good gifts thro'
Ministers.
2. Personal courtesy and
flattery towards themselves.
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11 12.
12. In both cases, corruption
safe, no statement
of terms — no bargains
being necessary: no
exposure to punishment
or shame.
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§. 1. From undiscontinued
relocability do corrupted: observe
evil in all
shapes, 2. in moral : 1 L 7
§. 2. Matter of corruption 8. 4 15
§. 3. Experience 146
Ch. VI. Legislative.
§. Relocable who.
Rationale
12.
13. In the moral, attraction
of corruption is
what do. of gravity is
in the physical world.
13.
14. Every year, the
adhesions of which the
matter of corruption
is the cement, will
be the closer.
Having tasted of the
sweets of power, few
will willingly submitt
to be debarred
from them.
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III 1 14.
Sole reason for
undiscontinued relocability,
the word experience:
experience gained by
Deputies the first year,
and so on.
15.
16. But vague and
delusive is the idea
presented by it. If relevant,
it must mean
applied in all branches,
particularly moral,
in which it's utility
the others depend.
But, in the moral,
instead of aptitude,
inaptitude, as above, is
the result, and the
intellectual and active
aptitude, being subservient
to the moral
inaptitude, are worse
than useless.
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IV. 1. 16 15
17. Not having power,
influence of will on
will — nothing but the
less uniform influence
of understanding on
understanding, Continuation
Committee men can not
be corrupted or
corruptors. so easily as .
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