1821 Nov. 28 Codification Offer '.8. Foreigner best Right and proper interest

a foreigner is susceptible of

By the supposition his aim is to produce such an original draught as whatever

may be the modifications applied to it - applied as they can not but be by the

constituted authorities shall remain the manifest basis and groundwork and

predominant matter of the all comprehensive Code. But for the accomplishment of

this object it is not possible that the should look for favour to any other

quarter than the good will /good opinion/ of the people. For as to the

constituted authorities between him and them there is not /can not be/ it has

been seen any community of interest: between him and them there can not fail to

be an opposition of interest can not fail to have place. It has already been

shewn, that between the rulers /constituted authorities in every situation/ even

in the situation of those who are what they are by means of the /that/

constitutive power which is in the hands of the people these representatives

/agents/ can not act but under the pressure of an interest opposite to that of

their principals. His situation is therefore that of an adversary to them on two

distinguishable accounts as being a rival and competitor seeking to apply a

bridle to their power; and in having one common interest with that body namely

the greatest number of the community whose interest they are by their own

sinister interest continually exposed to sacrifice, and who in proportion to the

[...?] of the resistance they make to that sacrifice, will be to them as

adversaries. He is on his own account their adversary: and he is so in virtue of

his connection with those whom they necessarily behold continual opponents and

as such adversaries.

Here if not long before, a question can not fail to have presented itself. Those

on who the giving acceptance to your proposal being thus decidedly /surely/ and

in their hearts unchangeably adverse to it, to what end do you make /proffer/

it? in what hope can you have thought of making it? To this question the answer

will be found in the concluding section.