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1822 Decr 20 Tripoli. Securities against
1822 Decr 20 Tripoli. Securities against Misrule 7o Preliminary Explanations

?.2 Remedy Publicity Public Opin. Tribunal III. Power - comparison as to

Unofficial where inferior 2. Difficulty of concert

Of this same disadvantage the factitious causes are those which are produced by

prohibitions and restrictions imposed by governments.

In every government but a democracy, the interest of the ruling few being in a

state of opposition to the universal /general/ interest, the consequence is that

in every government but that one, the class of functionaries beholds in the

Public Opinion Tribunal not a support, but an adverse power: a power capable of

becoming superior to its own - capable not only of opposing limits to it but

even in case of necessity of extinguishing it, and commonly the only one that is

so: the only one without exception, on the supposition that the political state

in question has /sees/ nothing of this sort to fear from any foreign State or

States.

Hence consequently with the governing /supreme operative/ body of every state

but that one it is a constant object to throw in the way of such communication

so far as applied to political purposes - i.e. so far as applied to the

formation of Sub Committees of the unofficial judicatory in question, every

difficulty /obstruction/ possible.

In the course of /To/ this endeavour it finds two natural obstructions

/counterforces/ and difficulties: the odium inseparably attendant on it; and the

obstructions thrown in the way of communications for the purpose of such

transactions as are regarded as being serviceable to its interests, and as such

approved of.
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