1823 Feb. 10

Greece Constitution © J.B's Observations Introduction

But, in so far as with relation to service in the shape in question dignity

constitutes /is/ a reward apt in shape, natural dignity, without any factitious

assistance or embellishment other than than that which consists in publicity is

a sufficient and in comparison of all others accurately well©proportioned

/rightly seated/ reward: whereas no factitious dignity, it being in each rank

the same thing for all who are invested with it, no factitious dignity can ever

unless by mere accident be in /bear/ any thing like a correct proportion to

service: and may to any amount and in practice may to any amount be seen to be

conferred in such sort as to be altogether mis seated: bestowed upon those by

whom no service to the universal interest has ever been or so much as pretended

to have been rendered rendered in any shape: in such sort as to be, in respect

of justice, on a footing exactly corresponding to punishment when inflicted on

him by whom no offence has in any shape shape been committed.

4. Attaching to these same situations power of patronage in excess Power of

patronage is power of placing men in situations to which power of the coercive

kind, or pecuniary emolument, or factitious dignity, or other power of

patronage, severally or conjunctly are attached In this way by one and the same

situation, desire on the part of two different functionaries is excited and

gratified: the protege™áÚá and the patron the functionary placed /located/, and

the functionary placing /locating/: the ”protege™áÚá• and the ”patron•.

Correspondent to every mass of effective power as above is a mass of obstruction

which if and when the obstruction proves effective /effectual/ is preventive

power.

A mass of preventive power is /has of late years been/ stiled in one word a

”Veto•.¼(¼a¼) A power of suspension has the effect of a veto while it lasts: it

may be stiled a ”suspensive veto•

A power of obstruction © a power to obstruct has in so far as it operates /has

any distinctly perceptible effect/ the effect of a suspensive Veto: and by every

instance of the exercise of a suspensive Veto the chance[?] of its proving an

effective Veto is produced. For the production of this effect, the accident of

intervening death is in the instance of every individual of itself sufficient.

¼(¼a¼)From the Roman Verb in the active mood present tense first person

singular, Veto I forbid.