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[036-142v] 1822 Feb. 18 Codification
[036-142v]

1822 Feb. 18

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VI.

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Each rationale is a grind-stone for the nose of the tyrant /In each Code with its rationale the nose of the tyrant the nose of the corruptionist may be made to feel a grindstone. No public meeting can there be in which it will not be in the power of any man to hold them to it./ Even the greatest happiness principle is that same implement in miniature.

A key, a lamp, a standard measure, a bridle an anchor, a grindstone the rationale is /may be seen/ a talisman that upon occasion assumes all these forms

To /By/ that portion of the aggregate of legislative power which is in the hands of the delegated representatives of the people to that and alone is that bridle in any immediate way applied the demand for which is in the case of every branch of power so indispensable. The /By the proposed/ unlimited assemblage of the proposed original draughts with their respective rationales the bridle will apply to every other functionary by whom any portion is possessed /shared/ in the power of legislation by whom any portion of legislative power is possessed and exercised: by the Monarch for example, of /and/ that one of his Ministers by whom under a Constitution which admitts of such interference any such original draught may come to be produced, and to be submitted to those by whom the /any ulterior/ remaining portion of legislative power is possessed and exercised. On this functionary /In this case/ though on one account the force of the bridle will be less than in the preceding case, on another account it will be greater. The circumstance by which it is diminished is the want of that personal contact which on various occasions is [...?] to have place between the delegated representatives of the people and their Constituents. The circumstance by which it is encreased is the superior degree of responsibility which as will shewn presently has place in the case where the hand by which a law as a measure of government is brought forward is but one compared with the case in which a number of hands greater than one have each of them a part in the business.
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