1821 Novr 29

Codification Proposal

'.8. Foreigner best

This being explained, the following /a/ position may in the character of a

position to be proved be laid down without danger of being misconceived, and

thereby without danger of appearing, as without such /this/ supposition it might

have been apt to do pregnant with palpable absurdity

The original draught in question being the subject matter reference to the

exercise of the consummative function, what is admitted and maintained is - that

natives as such, natives compared with foreigners are exclusively competent

At the same time to the exercise of the initiative function, aptitude in other

respects being supposed equal, foreigners as such - foreigners as compared with

natives - are in a superior degree competent: possessing a superior chance or

probability of being found possessed of a superior degree of appropriate

aptitude with relation to it