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[clxvii. 97]
1821 March 28
Rid Yourselves
Anti-Constitution evils
2. Corruptive influence
/Compleatly/ To exclude altogether the operation of the matter of corruptive influence in the hands of the members of the Executive department on the probity of the members of the legislative, is absolutely impossible: towards it all that the nature of the /this/ case allows to be done is the reducing to its minimum the number of beneficial official situations, and the value of each. With the addition of punishment in case of legally proved corrupt obsequiousness and public reproach in case of corrupt obsequiousness believed though no legally proved
You can not punish /make/ a man /punishable/ for the act of another: doing so, you would put it in the power of a man's adversary to punish him - to draw down punishment upon his head. Though a man has given his vote for an unnecessary augmentation to the corruption fund, you can not punish him because a son, a brother or a nephew of his has received a lucrative office. But in any case it will at the time of the next Election be for his constituents to choose whether he is the fittest representative they can have.
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Title: [[clxvii. 84] 1821 March 22]Description: [clxvii. 84] 1821 March 22 Rid Yourselves '7. Anticonstut Evil 2 Corruptive influence '.2. Second anti constitutional evil - evil working /wrought/ by corruptive influence Spaniards! I now come to speak of the last /next/ /a much more mischievous /serious/ /pernicious// branch of the anti constitutional evil produced by the claim: /We come now to the next /a much more serious/ branch of the anti constitutional evil:/ namely the addition made by it to the force of the corruptive influence exercised by it on the probity of the whole number of the Members of the Sovereign Assembly howsoever composed: composed in what proportion so ever of Members chosen and removable by the inhabitants of the peninsular, and as such linked with them by one common and universal interest; and of Members chosen and removable by strangers divided from them by an opposite interest. Of this corruptive influence the tendency, and to a certainty sooner or later the effect is to give to these representatives of the people on every occasion a particular interest opposite to the universal interest, and to which in consequence of the power attached to it the universal interest will on every occasion of conflict be sure to be sacrificed: to produce in a word on their part the correspondent corrupt obsequiousness.
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Title: [[clxvii. 94] 1821 March 23]Description: [clxvii. 94] 1821 March 23 Rid Yourselves Anti-Constitutional Corruptive influence In Article 129 next after the commencing clause Durante el tiempo de su diputacion, comes in the form of a parenthesis a reason to attach /attached/ to the mask - Contado para este efecto desde que el nombramiento conste en la permanente de Cortes And at the end of this same Article, that there may be no want of reason /lest there should be any deficiency in the article/ comes another, - como no sea de escala en su respective carrera. Spaniards these reasons have been brought before you. The reason grounded on the mischievousness of corruptive influence on the one part, of corrupt obsequiousness on the other - of consequent breach of trust on the part of the deputies and representatives of the people, and the want of a check to despotism in the hands of the Monarch, and to the consequent and perpetual sacrifice of the universal interest to the particular interest of the Monarch and those in his dependence. Here are two different sorts of reasons. Spaniards! you may take /have/ your choice. If however you feel reproach pressing on you - fear not the being in want of company. Of this complection /texture/ are all the bars that in this country under this Constitution have ever been set up against corruptive influence and corrupt obsequiousness - under this matchless Constitution - the envy and admiration of the universe: have ever been set up, or ever will be set up till it is drowned or buried in its own filth. But will you sit still and see yourselves cheated, pillaged and oppressed, and for no better reason than that there are others who in the same way are cheated pillaged and oppressed likewise? or because it is more dignified to continue to be so dealt with, than to cease to be so?
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