1822 June 16

Economy etc

Thus it is that exposure to corruption - unpunishable corruption is of the very essence of the representative system. It is of the very essence of a Representative Democracy It is of the very essence of a mixt Monarchy having in its mixture /any other body, and in particular/ a body of Representatives of the people or in a word any other body. To found to establish any such Mixt Monarchy is therefore to establish corruption - to establish it, and even by law: to establish any such Representative Democracy is to establish Corruption to establish it even by law: in this respect between a Representative Democracy and a mixt Monarchy with a Representative body in it there is no difference.

Between the two Governments not then in that point lies the difference: it lies in this: namely that in a Representative Democracy arrangements may be /are capable/ made, and accordingly have actually been made by which the tendency to corruption has been prevented from being at least to any perceptible /considerable/ degree /degree worth considering/ carried into effect: and the sinister sacrifice to any considerable prevented from taking place: whereas in a mixt Monarchy by no arrangements can that tendency be prevented from being carried into effect by no arrangements can that tendency be prevented from being continually on the encrease by no arrangements can the effect itself be prevented from being continually on the encrease: on the encrease, untill either all difference in effect between the mixt Monarchy and the absolute one be obliterated, or in consequence of the suffering produced by the perfection /degree/ to which the sinister sacrifice has been carried the people be to such a degree exasperated as to rise and abolish the mixt Monarchy now become in effect a pure one and set up another in the stead of it.