1822 June 16

Economy etc

Of a mixt Monarchy containing /with/ a mixture of Democracy the people exercising their power by Representatives of theirs it is the distinctive character to have in its composition a class of functionaries on whom the matter of corruption may and can not but

A form of government in which there is a representative body composed of functionaries located by the people at large contains a mass of corruptible matter, for which in any other form of government there is no place. This mass is the body composed of these same delegates of the people. Wherever such a body has place corruption has for its constant tendency, the effecting a change in the very /whole/ form character and essence of government: There are two forms of government in each of which this mass of corruptible matter has place a representative democracy, and a mixt Monarchy composed of a Monarch and a set of representatives of the people with or without the addition of an aristocratical body, not dependent for its existence or its composition on the people. In both these cases, the effect of the corruptive process in so far as it operates is to give encrease to whatsoever opposition had place at the outset on the part of the delegated representatives of the people as towards /in relation to/ their constituents