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1820 July 6

Emancipation Spanish

?.8. Corruptive influence

Corruption without corrupter

1 War. 2. Denial of justice - delay vexation and expence

Case the first. It is in virtue of a preestablished connection or harmony [...?] public mischief and private profit that interest is set in opposition to duty, and the sinister sacrifice accordingly made. /Case the first. The opposition that has place between the interest of the public functionaries in question and the universal interest, and thence and in so far between that private interest and their public duty, and by means of the predominance of that sinister interest over the only interest to which in this case the term legitimate interest can with propriety be applied has for its cause a preestablished harmony and connection between the public mischief on the one hand and the private profit on the other.

The sinister sacrifice has for its cause a preestablished harmony or connection between the public mischief and the private profit: in so much that to give birth to the two effects thus conjoined and linked together no punishable offence, no misdeed dealt with by the law as such is on the part of any individual necessary./

Example 1. War and its miseries[?] From the commencement or continuance of war, and thence of the vast and boundless mass of suffering produced by it, profit derived to public functionaries in a variety of high and influential situations.

Example 2/5/. A vitious constitution or form of government: a form which sits in direct opposition to the universal interest, and thence in so far as they acknowledge themselves to have a duty, to their duty, the private interest of almost every individual who has any part /share/ in the supreme power, thereby securing on every occasion their concurrence in the sinister sacrifice

Example 3/2/. Dominion over Distant dependencies. The practice of preserving and extending the dominion of the ruling functionaries over distant dependencies all over the surface of the globe: and this not only without profit to the subject many by diminution of the taxes, but with loss and suffering by encrease of taxes to a vast amount

Example 4/3/. Maintenance of claims of dominion over the inhabitants and thence over the governments of foreign nations, on every occasion /instance/ on which they have occasion to pass over or on the sea - the common highway of all the inhabitants of the earth.