1823 Feb. 19

Greece

Beginning

Of the delegation thus made by the people of operative power the sole use and object being by the supposition the doing /giving effect/ by means of those substitutes to that which would be their will had they time for forming it, it follows that for this purpose the dependence of the conduct of those substitutes to the will of those same principles in so far as they have time and means of forming one /it/ can not be too absolute and entire.

So much for the set of substitutes chosen in the first place. But by the same cause, namely want of time and appropriate information included, by which it has been rendered impossible for the delegates constituted as above in an /a direct and/ immediate way by the choice and appointment made of them by the people in their quality of possessors of the relative constitutive power, the physical possibility of going through in its entirety the whole of the business so allotted to the abovementioned possessors of the operative power stands in like manner excluded: detail of the arrangements which require to be made for defence of the people against external adversaries by land and water details of the arrangements for defence against internal adversaries in the character of criminals © details of the arrangements necessary to be made for the exaction and distribution of the pecuniary supplies necessary for the purchase of the materials employed in the business of /things and persons applied to the purposes of/ such national defence by these brief indicators thus /briefly/ given proofs sufficient of the impossibility in question are already brought to view. In addition to the necessity of clearing the hands of the people at large of the whole of the operative part of the business of government thus causes the necessity of clearing of large portions of it the hands in which at the first step the whole of the operative part was lodged or conceived of /regarded/ as if lodged