[clx. 311]

1822 July 8

Constitut. Code Rationale

Securities

Factitious honor

Counteractive inducements

and means

Every where the people have been in the habit of suffering to be filched from them tokens of respect in various degrees, upon false pretences. The remedy is in their own hands. It depends upon them, to cease the manifestation of these tokens of respect, and if necessary to substitute to them tokens of the opposite sentiment /disrespect/

By /It is by/ so many adjudications of the Aristocratical Section of the Public Opinion Tribunal that the several portions of respect are conferred. Above the Aristocratical in the scale of power whensoever it thinks fit to exercise its power, stands the Democratical Section of that same tribunal. Let the judgments of the subordinate section be annulled /quashed/ and over-ruled by the superordinate: in both Tribunals every member is Executive functionary as well as Judge.