1823. Feb¼y¼. 23 Greece. J.B. to Greek Legislators Independence Division of

power

Connected with the idea of independence is the idea of the division of power.

Connected with the belief if any such there be that independence of every body

the greatest number of the people not excepted is with reference to the greatest

happiness of the greatest number a useful quality in a public [...?] /public

[...?]/ is the persuasion that the division of power as between one functionary

or set of functionaries in the highest grade © division of power instead of the

most perfect subjection of the power of both to the wills of the greatest number

is /has a like tendency to be/ productive of the like benefit.

A functionary in the exercise of whose power the will of the people depends for

its accomplishment is he if for the possession of that power independent of the

will of the people more likely to endeavour to give effect to that will than if

he were dependent. The affirmative is too grossly /manifestly/ absurd to be

seriously contended for

The people © if the only power they are capable of exercising © namely the

constitutive power as above explained with relation to the hands by which the

operative power shall be exercised were shared by them with some other

functionary or set of functionaries, say for example a single functionary © a

Monarch © would they stand a better chance of having their will on each occasion

[...?] to their interest better provided for than in the case of their [...?]

same power the whole of it to themselves? Here we have another question the

answer to which is not less manifest than that to the preceding one.

Division of power? Yes ©in a certain sense that state of things must of

necessity, as you have seen have place it is of necessity: just as in the case

of the individual, food is necessary to existence. What the [...? ...?] upon

[...?] © is a division /schism of/ other than that which has been seen to be the

work of inevitable necessity: and it is as applied to such a /every such/ schism

that the answer is so clear, and the truth of it so incontrovertible.