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[clxvii. 105] 1821 March 24
[clxvii. 105]

1821 March 24

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AntiConstitutional evil

Consumption of Cortes time

But, if this sum be too short /insufficient/ /small/ for the purpose, Ultramaria out of the question, how much more so will /can it fail/ not to be the allowance of time on the supposition of the maintenance of the dominion in this and that portion of the Ultramarian world, concluding with the whole?

Now then supposing /of/ a deficiency of this sort what is the consequence? 1. Suppose for a moment no Ultramarian dominion, and the allotment of time for the business of the Sovereign Assembly sufficient, sufficient whatever be the amount of it: whether the posited three or four months in the Year, or all twelve months. That it was at any time the maximum to deal with, in the twelve months.

Add in the Ultramarian dominion: for simplicity of conception and let the population of Ultramarian be exactly equal to that of Spain - say 12 million

Suppose now that in the Cortes sitting in Spain the affairs of the 12 millions in Ultramaria will require no more /greater portion/ of the time of the Sovereign Assembly than the 12 millions in the peninsular. While there was no Ultramaria the twelve months time was just sufficient: add now to Ultramaria these same twelve months are no longer sufficient: they are but half sufficient.

To the service /business/ of the people in Spain not more time is allotted than half the quantity that was necessary to the due performance of it: In this same case moreover are the people of Ultramaria.
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    But the supposition is not true that to the performance of the business of Ultramaria in a manner equally proper no greater length of time is /would be/ necessary to the Cortes sitting in Spain than to the performance of the business of Spain is not true /a true one/. The length of /magnitude of/ time the distance in Spain and thence in time requisite for communication backwards and forwards have been brought /submitted/ to your consideration: so also the ignorance necessitated by that disastrous distance insurmountable bar so good government : the misrule necessitated by that ignorance: the dissatisfaction and complaints necessitated by that misrule.

    By all these circumstances taken together the demand made upon the time of the Cortes by Ultramaria will /would/ be found to exceed in a prodigious degree the demand made upon it by Spain if rid of Ultramaria.

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    By Article 335. of the ten functions allotted to the bodies stiled Provincial Deputation, each being in the province the principal political body within its province the first is "to intervene and approve the repartition made upon the pueblos (subordinate districts) of the contribution (contribuciones) which shall have fallen to the lot of the province.

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