[clviii. 343]

1822 June 16

Economy etc

Ch. Securities for I Moral Aptitude

Expository matter

1. Parties to Corruption

2. Corruptive process what.

29. 1. Corruption supposes Corruptor corrupted Corruptee, agent and patient.

30 2. Corruptible functionaries are

1. of the supreme class

2. of the subordinate do.

31 3. In subordinate classes, comparatively so inconsiderable are its effects, they may be left unconsidered.

32 4. In the highest class, corruption supposes supreme power fractionized: in one fraction corruptor; corruptee another.

33 5. Monarchy absolute, no room for corruption: no supreme power being unfractionized: sharers in power with the Monarch, none: all others his blind instruments.

34 6. Case where fractionization thence eventual corruption has place is where people's delegates have the whole of or a share in supreme operative power, the people have with relation to it the Constitutive: in a Representative Democracy the whole: in an ordinary mixt monarchy a share.

35 7. In no government can money be conveyed extensively and permanently by the supreme (or say legislative) operative into individual hands in numbers, but thro' a supreme Executive who though supreme as to │   │ Executive is subordinate as to supreme legislative - in a Representative Democracy, President, Supreme Director etc in a Monarchy, the Monarch. By his hands, in case of corruption, is the sinister sacrifice carried on for the benefit of both parties, Corruptor and Corruptees: he then, Corruptor general, tho' not so stiled.

In his hands, are of necessity a large aggregate of lucrative offices - objects of general desire

36 8. Eventual Corruptees, functionaries of all sorts and sizes - Members of the Representative body, and their constituents included.

37. 9. By operative when in the supreme rank, viz supreme legislative, can those arrangements be made by which provision is made for the sinister sacrifice, and the corruption by which the necessary parties are engaged to concurr in the making of it. To the Legislative situation it belongs to provide the matter of wealth, matter of corruption, and of sinister sacrifice, placing it within the reach of the Supreme Executive, to distribute it in the shape of Offices etc. to them and his and their connections: having for such purposes been extracted from unwilling contributors, it thus becomes matter of sinister sacrifice.