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1822. June 15th.

Economy etc

38 10. Recapitulation. Corruptor General Chief of the State in Republic, President etc: in Monarchy, Monarch. Eventual Corruptees, two sets: 1. People's Representatives, possessors of or sharers in the supreme operative: 2. People themselves - their Constituents: i.e. locators and eventual dislocators.

39 11. Process of corruption how carried on.

Needless altogether is all concert and explanation between Corruptor and Corruptee: perceptible operation in this view, none: thence, responsibility none. Sufficient is the state of interests and situations to make known to each what will be agreeable to the other and obtain from him the object of his desires.

40 12 To Executive Functionary, it is known that Offices etc. can not but be objects of desire to Representatives and their connections: he makes distribution of them accordingly. So to Legislative Functionary that only proportion as he keeps them on foot and causes new ones, will the Executive have them to dispose of: he makes provision for them accordingly

41 13. From what has ever hitherto been done in these several ways in the situation in question, each learn at all times, and without error, what will be done in future.

42 14. Thus is corruption - and that unpunishable - of the essence of the Representative System: in Republic, as well as Mixt Monarchy. In both cases, to establish Representation is to establish Corruption. No Representation, no such Corruption: no trust, no breach of trust

43. 15. As to this point, between Democracy and mixt Monarchy behold the sole difference. Antiseptic arrangements, the nature of the case affords, by which effective corruption, and the correspondent sinister sacrifice may nearly or altogether be prevented. These a Representative Democracy may and does employ a Mixt Monarchy never has employed nor can employ: on the contrary, it minimizes the employmt. of them, and maximizes the employment of the opposite septic arrangements.

44 16. This maximization continues, till either all difference in effect, between mixt and pure Monarchy is obliterated, or the people, exasperated past endurance by the misery produced by the consummation of the sinister sacrifice, withdraw their obedience altogether, and thus abolish the mixt Monarchy, substituting to it some other form of Government - Representative Democracy the most probable - in the state at which the human mind is arrived. Follows the description of these antisceptics.