[clxiv. 263]

1820 Aug. 22 1822 Aug. 9.

Emancipation Spanish? /Constitut. Code/

Summary?

?.5. Corruptive influence

Means of reducing

FF. Securities for Official Aptitude enumerated. (Superseded)

In a government in which either Monarchy or Aristocracy has any share, the only means for reducing to its minimum the efficiency of corruptive influence are as follows /may be thus enumerated/.

1. To exclude all /altogether/ factitious dignity altogether

2. In regard to operative power in contradistinction to elective To reduce to its minimum the quantity of it.

3. In regard to offices, considered as being in the hands of the functionary himself, to reduce to its minimum the value of the quantum of emolument in his hands, as also the number of the functionaries

4. In regard to offices considered as being at the disposal of a patron, to reduce to its minimum the number and value of the offices so disposed of: namely by raising to its maximum the number and value of those which are at the disposal of the people at large, delivering their votes by free and genuine and to that end by secret suffrage; always understood that it is not to the filling of every official situation in this mode that a promiscuous multitude can in respect of appropriate information be competent.

5. To provide for the giving by all possible means publicity to whatsoever connection there may be /may have place/ between the representatives of the people individually taken on the one part, and the possessors of lucrative offices and other such good things in the hands of the Monarch or the Aristocracy, on the other: subjecting /obliging/ them for example, on certain occasions to make answer to any such question as shall be put to them in relation to those points.