[clx. 323]

1823 Sept. 15

J.B for Greece Constitut Code

Ch.5 Short Rationale

?.3. In People the supreme and universal dislocative

/Constitutives Dislocative Reasons./

With the exception of the signing and sending in the necessary petitions a process altogether quiet and silent and quiet The process is no other than that which takes /has/ place of course on the occasion of every Election: by no tumult or disturbance in any shape is profit in any shape capable of being made by any body: therefore with no evil in any shape is the institution pregnant.

IV. By no other mean at any expence could this same remedial effect be produced: much less at any less expence. On him who thinks otherwise it will rest to produce some such more eligible means.

An ordinary expedient has been - the giving to some single functionary invested with the supreme Executive authority a negative in the acts of the so stiled legislative: that is to say a share in the legislative in addition to the whole of the Executive. What has been the consequence? As by the legislative so called nothing could be done without his concurrence, his concurrence must be bought at any price: so likewise by him, their concurrence. But by such mutual concurrence every thing can be done how prejudicial so ever to the people and without possibility of redress for the people The Executive Chief in virtue of his almost universal locative, gives valuable situations to an unlimited amount to the members of the legislative or what comes to the same thing to their connections: and that he may have the more of these desirable situations to give /good gifts/, they join with him in augmenting the number and value of them without end. To neither authority does that of the other act as a bridle to each of them the power of the other serves as a cloak

The division of power is an effective conjunction of sinister interests. It creates a slight contest which is sure to end in agreement - an agreement never likely to be broken, and the perpetually encreasing expence of which is borne by the people for whose benefit is the pretended motive for the establishment of it.