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1821 Decr 28

Codification Proposal

?.5 Admission Universal

III. Aptitude and Inaptitude

Chart of the course of

Misrule.

The occasion be it remembered on which on which these several causes of relative inaptitude have been searched out and brought to view, is the choice /appointment/ to be made of the hand or hands by which the original draught of the sort of work in question - an all-comprehensive and rationalized body of law, shall be penned. The main /fundamental/ position is that causes /circumstances/ of inaptitude considerable in number and mighty in force concurr in operating on this occasion in the character of causes of inaptitude, causes /circumstances/ the tendency of which is to place the work in hands eminently unapt, in such sort as to cause it to have for its end the sacrifice of the universal interest to a cluster of particular and sinister interests The problem to be solved - the result required to be produced is - so to obviate and counteract the operation of these causes, that the hand or hand actually employed shall in the highest degree that the nature of the case admitts of be endowed with appropriate aptitude in its several branches as above brought to view, and a correspondent degree of appropriate aptitude in a corresponding degree given to the work