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1822 June 18 Consult 1823 June 30

Economy etc

Ch Expository Matter

 4 Powers of Government

1. Powers of Government are I. in functions

1. Operative what

2. Constitutive what.

2. II in rank.

1. Supreme, or

2. Subordinate

3. 1. In function again Supreme operative

1. Supreme Legislative.

2. Supreme Executive.

4. Supreme Legislative what? By its laws and ordinances in pursuit of its end imposes and takes off obligations on all persons, in relation to all persons and all things, places, and eventually all times, obligations not annullable or variable by other power in the state.

5. Supreme Executive, in so far as needful, is exercised in giving execution and effect to all Laws and ordinances of the Supreme Legislative.

6. In function again Supreme Executive, is

1. Supreme Administrative.

2. Supreme Judicial.

7. Supreme administrative what -

Applies to their destined uses such things and personal services as in pursuance of the above end, are placed at its special disposal for the service of the state at large by the Legislative power.

8. Supreme Administrative power - its Departments

I │   │ necessary

1. Interior Affairs.

2. Land Force.

3. Foreign Affairs.

4. Finance.

II Contingently necessary

5. Naval force.

6. Distant dependencies.

9. Supreme Judicial power, what -

Causes to be applied to all persons and things, Supreme Legislative Rules and ordinances; viz. by causing execution and effect to be given to Supreme Legislative's Laws and Ordinances as above, in case of │   │ manifested or apprehended: commonly at the suit of some party, regarding himself as prejudiced by such │   │

10. Legislative power - its exercise ordinary and extraordinary -

1. Ordinary, on persons at large.

2. Extraordinary, on Supreme Executive functionaries, Administrative or Judicial, in case of alledged failure of alledged duty on their part: viz. by dislocation, and if need be punition.

14 Apr. 1823 Superseded this by Constitut Code Ch. 1