[xxxvi. 38]

1821. June 1.

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Constitutional Finance

Note.

If there were a case affording a proper exception to this rule, it should naturally be that of a man occupying a judicial office. One day, the conversation happening to touch upon this subject, a distinguished functionary of the Anglo-american United States mentioned to me as a case that had fallen within his own knowledge that of a judge who, by a stroke of the palsy, had been reduced to a state of complete helplessness. Well: and what was the provision made for him? none at all: there was no fund for it. What no fund for such a case? no: for there is no need of it. no need of it? no: and thereupon came an intonation of the principle that has been seen in the text.