1822 Dec. 17 Tripoli. Securities against Misrule 7o Preliminary Explanations

?.2 Remedy Publicity Publ. Opin. Tribunal III. Power comparison as to Unofficial

where inferior

Every addition thus made to the number of the persons habituated or disposed to

the constituting themselves members of these unofficial Committees is an

addition made to the number of those capable of taking cognizance and likely to

take cognizance of any appeal made to this tribunal by any members of the

government - by any of the official functionaries wnen disagreeing with one

another /among themselves/. By Every such disagreement an addition is therefore

naturally made to the power of this judicatory - of the only political body the

interest of which is not in discordance but in accordance with, as being the

same thing with the interest of the greatest number of the members of the

political community in question whatever it be: for by every publication on the

subject of the disagreement whatever it be - even by every verbal discourse held

man and man among the people at large on that same subject an appeal of this

sort is made. accordingly By every such disagreement so as the subject matter

and the particulars of it do but transpire a service is rendered to the public

interest to the greatest happiness of the greatest number. No such service

naturally is commonly intended: but how far so ever from being intended, it is

not the less rendered.