1823 Feb. 19

Greece

Beginning

Here then /Thus/ we have already a chain of political subordination consisting of three links. Link the first or basis of the whole the universal /all©embracing/ Constitutive power: subordinate to none. 2. link the second the legislative or supreme legislative power: subordinate to the constitutive power and to that alone: 3. Link the third the supreme Executive power: subordinate to the legislative or supreme legislative power, and thence to the supreme Operative power, but not to any other: subordinate to the legislative to the end that it [...?] thus may be so to the all©embracing constitutive power, and not for any other purpose for the sake of any other end.

Of this chain up to what precise number the total assemblage /succession/ of links may require to be extended can not for any state much less for all /every/ political states for the political state here in question be determined for ever /all times[?]/ by any general rule. But whatsoever be the length of it relation being constantly had to the greatest happiness of the greatest number rules relative to /for the direction of/ the structure of the several links will be found not incapable of being grounded on a sufficiently clear /satisfactory/ foundation

To form a ground and foundation for these rules one indisputable matter of fact must in the first place be brought to view. This is that be the political state in question what it may, a quantity of things to be applied to the purpose of national defence in its several branches as above will of necessity require to be provided, and the stock of them kept up. 2. also things of other sorts for the subsistence of any functionaries whose whole time is allotted to the purpose at any rate if there be not in sufficient number any set of persons who having in their own property the means of subsistence can all of them together be induced to allot to that same purpose a sufficient quantity of time at the hands of a sufficient number of functionaries /persons/. Of Things at large and means of subsistence in particular in so far as thus employed is composed the necessary ”expence• of government.