[xxxvi. 171]

1822 July 24

Constitut. Code Rationale

Supreme Constitutive in people

Supreme Operative?

Enmity between high and low

is not reciprocal

Every where it has been seen with the single exception of a well /an aptly/ organized

Representative Democracy, the ruling and influential few are enemies of /to/ the subject

many: enemies in mind as well as in act, and by the very nature of man until the

government whatever it be has given way to a Representative Democracy unchangeable

/perpetual and implacable/ enemies.

Not so the subject many to the ruling and influential few the enmity is not reciprocal:

it is all of it on one side. on that one side only.

The subject many are every where both oppressing and plundering the subject many. The

subject many have neither the expectation nor the desire of oppressing or plundering the

rich /wealthy/. Oppress them they could not without plundering them without plundering

them of all they have: for without any factitious power, that is to say official power

their, their wealth can not but protect them - protect them most effectually against

oppression in every shape

Plunder the wealthy few: the subject many could not by any general resumption or /and

new/ division of property, for by any such attempt every thing valuable and all property

in it would be destroyed: that of the poorest as well as that of the most wealthy.

As little could they in the way of taxation: taking this or that part instead of the

whole. For between wealthy and not wealth there being no line of separation actual or

practicable, the less rich could not be taxed without the taxing of the more rich

likewise.

In the Anglo-American United States the class who with relation to the purpose in

question are without property - that is to say without property sufficient for their

maintenance, have for upwards of forty years by means of the right of electing the

possessors of the Supreme Operative power had the property of the wealthy within the

compass of their legal power: in what instance has any infringement of property been

ever made?