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1820. Sept r. 24 Emancipation Spanish
1820. Sept r. 24

Emancipation Spanish

'. 5 Corruptive influence

But as it is impossible that by a war sucessful or unsuccessful so as the ill

success does not pass certain limits a limited[?] Monarch should not in respect of

his particular and sinister interest be a gainer - gainer by the increase given to

the matter /mass/ of coercive force, gainer by the increase given to the matter of

coercive influence, so it is impossible that to /in the breast of/ a Monarch so

situated, there should not be a perpetual tendency to plunge the nation into a war,

on every occasion in which a prospect of carrying it on without loss to himself

presents /should present/ itself. And thus it is that a nation which under a mixt

monarchy suffers itself to be plunged into an unjust and unnecessary war, hastens

whatever be the effect of the war its own enslavement.

Since therefore under a mixt monarchy war without any endeavours or designs to that

effect, /on the part of the monarch and those around him expressly deputed to notice/

the government is continually sliding on in its course to the gulph of despotism, it

follows that under a mixt monarchy, but for measure expressly taken for the purpose

of giving it a contrary tendency, such sooner or later will infallably be the effect.

Such measures so as they be but successful, and carried into effect without

bloodshed depredation and destruction to a preponderant ammount can not be too

efficient and effective can not raise /give/ the government too great a move /an

advance/ up the hill on the summit of which pure represenstative democracy has its

seat. Why? because that is the only form of government which is good, that is the

only form of government which is stable: pure monarchy is raised upon /seated in/ a

crater, under which a fresh[?] volcano may at any at any time burst forth: mixt

monarchy is ever upon the slide sliding downward towards this gulph in which rises

the elevation in the crater of which despotic monarchy is situated
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