1821. April 27.

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Constitutional

A Constitutional Code might in a certain sense be said to compleat if neither any distribution of operative power among subordinate authorities nor any mode of appointment or removal for the exercise in relation to the possessors of any such subordinate power were prescribed /contained/ in it. For by the description given, as above, of the supreme power, and the provision made as above for the exercise of the designative power with relation to the possessors of that same supreme operative power, provision would be made for all such subordinate arranements, as above, as it might be the pleasure of the possessors of those two branches of the supreme power to concurr in te making of.

Remains /Come/ now to be given a few leading principles relative to the matters belonging to the several departments or branches of law abovementioned, considered in so far as the nature and effect of the Constitution intended to be given by the Constitutional Code is liable to be affected and modified by any arrangements which have presented themselves in the first instance as appertaining respectively to those several antecedently /already/ considered branches.