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1821 Decr. 5

Codification Proposal

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Appendix

II Aristocrats interest

7 Decr. Add Relation between Monarch and Aristocrats interest.

II. Aristocracy © Member of an Aristocracy.

Aristocracy © pure Aristocracy without a Monarch over it, belongs not to the present occasion. It is confined to the Aristocratical Cantons of Switzerland: governments which can not be charged with professing liberal ideas.

In the breast /situation/ of an Aristocracy the general description of sinister interest is the same as in that of a Monarchy

In so far as /in any community there exists/ a distinguishable body of men has place distinguished from the rest by a peculiarly large proportion of the general mass of the objects of general desire in any shape, a corresponding aristocratical body or aristocracy has place Of aristocracies in one and the same community there are accordingly or may be á³á   á³á different sorts.

Aristocracy more or less lasting constituted by operative power belonging to the legislative power /branch/, or derived by means of Election, real or pretended, from the body of the people

1. Aristocracy constituted by official power belonging to the executive branch © aristocracy of power

3. Aristocracy constituted by factitious dignity aristocracy of title

4. Aristocracy constituted by present opulence © aristocracy of wealth

5. Aristocracy constituted by power dignity or opulence of a man's ancestor © aristocracy of birth or ancestry: aristocracy of landed opulence: do of monied opulence.

6. Aristocracy constituted by official power, factitious dignity, present wealth /opulence/ and hereditary wealth /opulence/ in the hands of the Clergy.

7. Aristocracy constituted by the influence of talent applied to /employed in the/ political field of government

In all these several shapes any or all of them the matter of aristocracy may be lodged and united in the hands of one and the same individual

1. In respect of power it is the interest of the aristocrat and of the aristocracy to have /that his share/ as large a share of /in/ that of the Monarch as possible: and that in respect of /correspondency with/ that share the subjection of the people be as compleat and as extensive as possible

2. In respect of money, it is the interest of the aristocrat and of the aristocracy to have as large a share of that portion which is taken out of the hands of the producers /body of the people/ as possible: as likewise as large a share as possible of the residuum left by the Monarch in the hands of the people

3. In respect of factitious dignity it is the interest of each aristocrat to have to himself as large a portion of it as possible. At the same time it is his interest that the number of all those of the same class or /rank and of those/ of a higher rank be as small as possible: but that the share /lot/ possessed by those of a rank inferior to his own, be as large /high/ as possible, so also the number of those who have situation in that same inferior rank.