1821 Nov. 18

Codification Offer /Proposal/

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A work of the sort in question not being within the ordinary line of public business - being in fact the first of the sort that was ever proposed or perhaps so much as conceived - questions to the following effect present themselves as calling for answers

1. In favour of the probability of your executing a work of this sort with advantage to your employers what presumptions are you able to produce. What In a word are your grounds of expectation in regard to acceptance. Say - Grounds of expectation what?

2. Why not produce the work at once instead of thus offering to produce it? Say - Why instead of the work an offer only?

3. Why thus make offer of it instead of waiting for its being spoken? Say - Invitation why not waited for?

4. Your notions of what is best in the field of Constitutional law being plainly repugnant to the arrangements which in that part of the field of /which regards Constitutional/ law are already established in several of the Nations to which Your Proposal looks, what expectations can you entertain of any acceptance at the hands of their respective rulers either for what regards that part of the field or for what regards the two other parts of the field namely the Penal and the Civil.

What acceptance can you look for, from Governments established on principles of Constitutional law different from yours? Say - From different principles what expectation of acceptance?