[xxxiv. 298]

1824. Feb y. 27

Constitutional Code. for Greece

Ch. Sub-Legislatures

?. Observations

Federative System

Circumstances however are not altogether wanting, by which the need of a deposition more or less considerable from a form of government so simple as the one exhibited by the present Code may not improbably be found indicated

1. A principal one, and that of a nature obvious to every eye is the distance in point of place, and on account of winds still more in point of time between some of the islands with relation as well to each other, as to the main land.

2. Another may perhaps be found in the differences between habits of thinking as between the inhabitants of one portion of territory and those of another. Only for remembrance sake is this circumstance mentioned, the facts not lying in any degree within the knowledge of the author of these pages.

[...? ...? ...?] taken together it seems impossible, as things stand at present to say on what points it may be found expedient or necessary to apply more or less of relaxation to the closeness of the bonds which a government so simple as the one here proposed would apply /be applied/.

This much however may it is hoped be asserted with a degree of confidence to which the imputation of ungrounded presumption will not it is hoped be found attached namely that by the view here given of the general[?] field of service and within this the several sorts of functions which belong to the nature of the case, the fixation of the several points of independence will be found facilitated.