[clx. 391]

1823 Feby. 9

Constitut. Code

III Reason giving

Ch.2. Constitutive

?.2. Remedy - Publicity

Publ. Opin. Tribunal

Sections

Demarcation impossible

Aristocracy [...?] in U.S.

Ballot removes the bad symptoms

? Noxiousness of the elements of aristocracy in every government but the democratical: their innoxiousness in that.

The harbouring in its vitals /bosom/ a set of individuals whose interest as a body /constituting a body the interest of which/ is opposite to that of the greatest number is (it has already been observed a sort of disease in the body politic: the efficient instruments of this disease being by this sinister interest estranged from and rendered foreign to the rest of the body may in this respect be considered rather as vermin attached to it /with which it is infested/ than as members forming part

The interest of the greatest number requires that those who are drawn /aside/ to the side of the aristocrats by corruption should be punished by disrepute, and those who are drawn or liable to be drawn aside by delusion and deception be undeceived and forewarned.