1822 Dec. 10

Tripoli. Securities against Misrule.

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Preliminary Explanations

?.2. Remedy Publicity

Publ. Opin. Tribunal

?1. Judicatory's attributes

As to ruling interest, it is a topic that will be apt to present itself as more new than agreable when applied to an /any/ official judicatory: it does not however the less indisputably belong to it, as well as to this all-comprehensive though unofficial judicatory /the Public Opinion Tribunal/: and in this one of its attributes will this all comprehensive though unofficial judicatory be seen to possess its strongest title to regard. The ruling interest of the Public Opinion Tribunal that is to say of the aggregate number of its members the ruling interest can never be in discordance with the interest of the aggregate number of the members of the political state or community in question: whereas the interest whether we take the aggregate interest of the whole number of official tribunals or their several particular and distinct interests that is to say the aggregate of the interests of the several members, it can never be in compleat accordance with that same /the abovementioned/ universal interest.

Such is the identity in the case /on the part/ of the actual /real/ net interest: and in so far as correctly understood and capable of being pursued, it is the real net interest that in every individual and in every aggregate of individuals will on each occasion be the actual ruling interest.