1822 Nov.4 Tripoli Securities against Misrule Preliminary Explanations ?.2.

Remedy, Publicity 1. Subjects

3. Suffrages. Understand by suffrages, the opinions produced in the minds of the

several Members of this same tribunal by the cognizance of the several

transgressions. The degree of publicity as applied to persons taking cognizance

of the several transgressions will be as the number of these suffrages.

Note that in the number of the members of this same tribunal is included the

number of all those on whose obedience as well the effect of the several

tutelary /salutary/ /general/ ordinances by which vexation is prohibited, as

also of any particular acts or particular ordinances in consequence of which any

acts of vexation and oppression are performed /exercised/ in violation and

transgression of those same general and salutary ordinances. Power on the one

part is constituted by and is greater or less in proportion to obedience on the

other. It is in the direct ratio of the obedience, and in the inverse ratio of

resistance. But the greater the number of the members of the whole community to

whom the existence of an act of oppression has been made known, the greater is

the number of those by whom on the occasion of an endeavour to exercise other

acts of a similar nature, supposing the past act notified to them not only may

obedience be withholden, but resistance opposed.

Rule. Abstraction made of the several degrees of influence possessed - influence

of understanding on understanding and influence of will on will included, the

actual power of the Public Opinion Tribunal will be as the number of the

suffrages actually declared in the minds of the several members: its power, as

supposed by other persons, and in particular the several /head functionary and

other/ functionaries to whose transgressions it is the object of this Security

to oppose a check, will be as the number of the suffrages which they expect to

find formed and delivered.