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1822 Nov. 10 Tripoli - Securities against
1822 Nov. 10 Tripoli - Securities against Misrule 30 Preliminary Explanations

?. Remedy Publicity III. Suffrages

Editor is more[?] than[?] even[?] Greek Orator or Jewish prophet

On the miscellaneousness of matter does Newspaper depend for his influence

Originally it had not any such object - only to make known facts not to pass

judgment on conduct.

In a Representative Government at any rate in a Representative Democracy, with

the exception of the function of the principal Minister, more important is the

function /greater is the importance/ of this unofficial functionary than of any

official one: more important, that is to say in particular /particularly/ to the

great purpose here in question - that of making application of the power of the

Public Opinion Tribunal in by far the most beneficial and the highest character

of a check upon misrule. By the Prime Minister impulse is given to the machinery

of the political sanction: by the Editor of the prime popular Newspaper, to that

of the social sanction Of this superiority /superiority/ the causes are 1. in

each individual instance /occasion/ the greater the number of the suffrages by

/on/ which on each occasion the motions made by this representative of the

people are taken for their ground, the motions made by this unofficial

representative compared with those made by any official representative, but 2.

more particularly the constancy and continuity of action which has place in this

case - a constantly and continuity in which /sources of influence in respect of

which/ no official representative limited as his motions and discourses are to

particular and scattered occasions and scattered points of time, can hold

comparison.
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