1822 May 17

Economy

Ch. 5 Search for Money Maximized

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III. Security 3. Minimizing money at disposal of highest functionaries.

1. Necessary the office of Chief Executive functionary 2. Desirable its being in a single hand. 3. Necessary in his hands to a great extent power of locating subordinates. 4. And of dislocating them.

2.

Necessary to an indeterminate extent power of remuneration for engaging their acceptance.

3.

For aptly executing functions to which no power is attached, men may be engaged by compulsion, witness privates in military service by land and sea. Not for executing functions to which power is attached: evil consequence would be desertion and negligence: things of persons subject to their power would remain unemployed or ill—employed. For not doing that which it is not known he can do man can not be punished.

4.

Pay therefore can not be altogether withdrawn from office — of offices to a large extent the location can not be in any other hand than that of a chief executive functionary who himself is in a state of subordination to the situation of the body in which as above the greatest happiness of the greatest number requires that the suppressed operative power be lodged.

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Preventing chief—functionary from producing in the minds of the legislative functionaries by giving endowed offices to others, the same effect as if those offices were given to themselves is not possible: for I. Of the communication of benefit from the endowed functionary to the legislative functionary, no adequate evidence can the nature of the case afford. II. Laws not enactible. 1. Law punishing A the legislative functionary for B's acceptance of an office. 2. Law invalidating the the location of every man having any connection of

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of interest or sympathy with any legislative functionary. 3. Law, by punishment or invalidation, inhibiting A from being motivated by a kindness done to B. 4. Law, inhibiting A from doing the will of C on account of his having done, or being expected to do a kindness to B.

6.

As a means of preventing a legislative functionary from doing the sinister will of the Chief Executive (giver of good gifts) to propose a law inhibiting d o functionary from receiving such gifts himself is imbecility or hypocrisy & treachery: imbecility if he sees not the inexpediency; treachery if he does — the tendency of such false being to avert the public mind from efficient d o.: to cause men to think the sinister sacrifice is already prevented, as well as intended to be prevented: whereas it is intended to be promoted. Axiom of psychological pathology — Qui facit per alium, facit per se.

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Placing this within reach of legislative per se functionary good gifts at the disposal of the Chief Executive, is sowing in the Constitution seeds of corruptive influence: enabling and exciting Executive and Executive to become accomplices in trust—breaking (like placing flesh in ) circumstances, yet this is the work of necessity & unavoidable.

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For preventing effective corruption, i.e. joint performance of the sinister sacrifice, sole means minimizing the quantity & value of the matter of corruption in Chief functionaries, with the application of counterforces as below. This the Interest of both that the quantity and value if it be maximized.