JB_113_028v.xml

Title: [1821 Novr 29 Codification Proposal]

Description: 1821 Novr 29

Codification Proposal

'.8. Foreigner best

This being explained, the following /a/ position may in the character of a

position to be proved be laid down without danger of being misconceived, and

thereby without danger of appearing, as without such /this/ supposition it might

have been apt to do pregnant with palpable absurdity

The original draught in question being the subject matter reference to the

exercise of the consummative function, what is admitted and maintained is - that

natives as such, natives compared with foreigners are exclusively competent

At the same time to the exercise of the initiative function, aptitude in other

respects being supposed equal, foreigners as such - foreigners as compared with

natives - are in a superior degree competent: possessing a superior chance or

probability of being found possessed of a superior degree of appropriate

aptitude with relation to it

JB_113-023v.xml

Title: [1821 Novr 29 Codification Proposal]

Description: 1821 Novr 29

Codification Proposal

'.8. Foreigner best

If by the exercise of this initiative function power called the initiative power

were exercised, and person exercising it were a foreigner, not only on this

supposition would power be exercised by this /such/ foreigner, but a power

greater than any which the supreme ruler or rulers of the state could exercise:

the share thus exercised by him would be greater than the whole remainder left

to them /respectively to him/: conceive any mass /body/ of discourse capable of

being proposed in the character of a body of law: by the possessors of the

consummative power it could not be prevented from becoming law till after

discussion whereas by the possessor supposing here such possessor of this

initiative power it could without any discussion be prevented from becoming law:

it could be prevented from being discussed: by mere inaction, and without any

exertion on his part he could prevent any thin that he pleased to prevent from

becoming law.

JB_024_459v.xml

Title: [1821 Novr 11 or 12 Codification Offer '8]

Description: 1821 Novr 11 or 12 Codification Offer '8. Foreigner best '.5.II. Intellectual

aptitude 5. Effects of Foreigners aptitude will not be destroyed by Legislation

Committee

To the aptitude of the supply from this quarter one moment may present an

objection, but another will dispell it.

By the supposition it may be said, these natives will be labouring under those

causes of inaptitude, those sinister interests and affections - (as well as

prejudices) by which their appropriate aptitude, as well in point of moral

aptitude as in point of appropriate judgment, is, according to you, placed so

much below that of the foreigner. True: but, by that same supposition, the

draught - the groundwork which they will have to work upon is a draught not

drawn by their own hands, or by those of any other native, but by the

foreigners: and by him it has been furnished with a rationale. In the outline

then of the drawing, with or without the instructions above spoken of - in the

outline of his drawing, with the bridle which it affords as well as the guide,

will they find a check to, and a security against the effective predominance of

those same sinister interests.