1823 Feb 18

Greece

Beginning

The government is perfect that is the right and proper end of government is likely to be accomplished, in a degree proportioned to that in which the conduct of the supreme operative is conformable to the will of the supreme constitutive

So again in proportion as the conduct of the supreme Executive is conformable to the will of the supreme Operative, or as it may be /is/ termed when the business of the executive is considered as detached from its functions © the supreme legislative.

The more strictly conformable the conduct of the Executive is to the will of the legislative the more strictly conformable will it be to the will of the supreme Constitutive

Thus it is that the degree of subserviency of each set of functionaries of the government to the [...?] acknowledged end of government will depend upon the strictness of its conformity to the will of its immediate superior in the scale

In other words In every part of the scale of subordination as between one set of functionaries and another the depend of each upon its immediate superior ought to be as absolute as possible: the sway of each superior over its immediate subordinate as absolute as possible: having no other limit than that which is set by the dependence which such superior has on the will of its own immediate superior.