[036-115v]

1821 Novr 19

Codification Proposal

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Inserendumae

In the course of the Arguments /may be found/ an acknowledgement may be found that to the drawing up on the plan in question an entire body of law expressed throughout in terminis no man can be competent if it be for the use of any other political state than the one with the peculiar circumstances of which he has made obtained such an acquaintance as can rarely have been obtained by any one who is not by birth a Citizen of that same state But this incompetence whatsoever may be the degree of it does not extend to the original draught designed to form the ground work of such a Code: By what hand so ever the original Draught /this initiative/ has been drawn up, there will always in the [-----?] of the legislature an authority to which it will belong to revise the original Draught /this initiative/ and put the last hand to it: By this revision all objection to the making choice of a foreigner for the original draught /taking /receiving/ the original draught from the hands of a foreigner/ is removed: and the consequence is - that if by any particular circumstances the hand of a foreigner as such should be found to afford for such a fairer promise than that of a native can, any objection which on the ground of foreignership might otherwise be regarded as conclusive against the acceptance of any such offer as the present is removed.