1822 Decr 17.

Tripoli. Securities against Misrule.

7o

Preliminary Explanations

?.2. Remedy Publicity

Publ.

III. Power

Unofficial where inferior

In a mixt Monarchy, the existence of disagreement between the constituent /component/ parts of it is of the very essence of the speices. True it is that another property belonging to the essence of the species is the having a bond of union or sinister interest in which they share a sinister interest acting in constant opposition to the interest and greatest happiness of the people of the greatest number: and by this unity of interest the government may for a length of time more or less considerable be kept from dissolution.

Not less true is it that in a government of this form /species/ not less constantly a cause /causes/ of disagreement has /have/ place

If between the power of the Monarch and whatsoever other power there is by which his is kept in check the limits are not sufficiently defined, thereupon comes contention between the one power and the other.

So if between two powers subordinate to that of the Monarch if so it be that the Monarch takes a part on the one side or the other which is what can scarcely fail to have place /happen/.

By a certain degree of prudence disagreement from any one of the above three causes may be kept from breaking out.

One source /cause/ however there remains which is of the essence of the species, and which can not by any human prudence be at any time altogether excluded /compleatly shut out/. This is the competition for power as between party and party in the class of statesmen

The matter of good in the shape of the matter of corruption is suppose even the whole of it in the hands of the Sovereign /Monarch/ or at his disposal. Still be it ever so vast, and be his desire of satisfying every body ever so ardent, to give satisfaction to that desire is at all times plainly impossible. So far from decreasing as the quantity at his disposal and accordingly disposed of encreases, the aggregate amount of the appetite encreases in that same ratio: the more /of it/ there is to be had of it, the greater is the number of those each of whom beholds for himself a probability of obtaining a share of it.