1823 Feb. 12

Greek Constitution J.B.'s Observations as to ?3. Executive Council useless

As to the number of these Ministers, it is as above mentioned no less than 8. In

the Anglo©American United States it is no more than 4. 1. Secretary of State. 2.

Secretary of War. 3. Secretary of the Navy. 4. Secretary of the Treasury among

these four is the whole business of the Executive Department divided. The mass

of business for which in the /those/ United States four Secretaries are /have

all along been/ found sufficient is on many accounts much greater than any that

is ever likely to rest on the shoulders of the Executive Department in

regenerated Greece. No of United States 24 already: and among them might be

found several each of them containing a greater extent of territory than all

Greece. They have each of them besides a share in the General Constitution its

own separate Constitution /one/. Extent concurrs /Originally established usage,

has concurred/ with other circumstances in producing this distinctness. A

correspondent distinctness A preponderant convenience may perhaps be found in

establishing a correspondent distinctness in regenerated Greece. But the grand

reason established usage has here no place: nor at any rate can the demand for

it be by a great deal so imperious as it has been and continues to be in those

United States.