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[clx. 435]
1822 July 22
Constitut. Code Exposition
Ch. or . Security the seventh. Exclusion of all factitious instruments of delusive influence.
Appropriate delusion is an instrument /among the instruments/ of corruption employed by corruptors: and with or without any such intention or design /correspondent endeavour/ on the part of corruptionists the instruments of corruption operate of themselves as instruments of delusive influence.
Of such delusion, the effect, described in general terms is this - causing public functionaries in general, and in particular those whose place is highest in the scale of power, to be regarded as occupying in the scale of appropriate aptitude, moral and intellectual in particular, in a word in the scale of worth, intellectual and moral, a place higher than, and as much as possible above /higher/ than the place they respectively occupy in reality: to be so regarded, and /to wit/ for the purpose of obtaining for their benefit, at the expence of the people at large of obtaining for their benefit in addition to such /whatsoever/ respect, deference and obsequiousness is promotive with reference to the universal interest an /some/ ulterior portion which is not promotive but detrimental to that same all comprehensive /only legitimate/ interest.
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Title: [[clx. 434] 1822 July 22 Constitut]Description: [clx. 434] 1822 July 22 Constitut. Code Exposition Ch. or . Securities for good government against corruptive influence. The existence and operation of the principle of corruption or corruptive influence being thus in every government to a certain degree unavoidable, what remains is to oppose the operation and efficiency of it by whatsoever arrangements afford promise of operating as securities for good government, securities to the fabric of government against this dry rot to which all government stands exposed: exposed by the nature of the materials of which it can not but be every where composed /must every where be composed/. These may it is believed be comprehended all of them under one or other of the heads following viz 1 Minimizing the quantity of power in the hands of functionaries 2. Minimizing the quantity of the matter of wealth in the disposal of functionaries 3. Minimizing the quantity of the matter of wealth employed as pay of functionaries 4. Applying legal counterforces to the power of functionaries 5. Applying moral counterforces to the power of functionaries. 6. Exclusion of factitious honor or say factitious dignity 7. Exclusion of all other factitious instruments of delusive influence
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