[clxiv. 123]

1820. May 16

Emancipation Spanish.

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?.8. Corruptive effect

?.4. Rulers gainers

?.8 Of the dominion in question, the operation of corruptive influence to the destruction of whatsoever there is that is good in the Constitution, would sooner or later an inevitable result.

11 Profit in the shape of power of corruption: of giving by the influence of corruption of direction given to the matter of corruption, direction - sinister direction to the conduct of the representatives of the people

Of power in this shape the use to the possessor is the securing to him and his connections in point of interest in possession and expectancy, profit in all those other shapes that have been mentioned.

Power in this shape is an article peculiar to a mixt constitution in which in conjunction /connection/ with a function or functionaries not chosen by the people at large, but succeeding one to another in the way of natural succession functionaries chosen by the people at large have a share.

It is the interest of the people at large, that the quantity of money taken from the people and placed at the disposal of their rulers and from the purpose of affording subsistence and gratification and exemption from evil in every shape, to the people at large to any other purpose than that of security for that subsistence and that gratification and exemption and thence that the profit derived from it in all three shapes be as small as possible. But it is the interest of these same rulers that the quantity so placed at their proposal[?] and of that same profit in all its shapes be as great as possible.

In a pure Monarchy, the external instruments of felicity in all those several shapes have respectively but one value and so in a pure Commonwealth. In a mixt government in addition to that universal value they have a special value: a value in the character of instruments of corruption: instruments of corruption not only applicable but, without need of human operation /exertion/, actually and constantly applying themselves to the breasts of the representatives of the people, self-stiled guardians of the interest of the people: applying themselves in such sort as to engage these self-acknowledged trustees in a /the/ constant habit of betraying their trust