[ clxvii. 213]

1821 March 2 7

Rid Yourselves

S 16. Adopter's Justification

But not: it is not by the number of words employed in giving expression to it; that the extent anymore than the utility of a mass of legislative measure is to be measured it is by the extent of the influence exercised by it the happiness of those whose happiness is at stake on it.

In a nutshell according to the trivial proverb was contained on a certain occasion the substance of Homers Head in a receptacle of similar magnitude might be containted the excellence of the Spanish Constitutional Code. In Articles 13 and 4: the only legitimate end of government: in Articles 34, 35 the effcetual means: the choice of the ruling few placed in the hands of the subject many, to the exercise of a man's share in this choice no bar opposed but that which it is in his /in a man's/ own power to remove. To theory at once so sound and so extensive carried into detail by practice so beneficially effective, imperfection in detail might have been added in any number and to almost any extent, and still the compound might have remained a beneficient /good/ and serviceable one.