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sparing severity , and is stated at one time to have had , through * out France , in pay an army of clerks , subalterns , scouts , and spies to the astonishing number of eighty thousand men !* In addition to the foregoing codes and appendix , in the session of 1831 , laws passed the French legislature which it has been
thought fit to call the seventh code , probably for want of due consideration , that the multiplication of laws cannot increase the number of codes . Much as the French laws have been simplified , and infinitely better as they have been arranged , ( indeed under the old Bourbons there was no classification at all , ) it seems to have escaped the sagacity of the French legislators ,
that a system of jurisprudence could , in strictness , consist but of three codes , namely , the civil code , the penal code , and the code of procedure , and that all laws may be classed under one or other of these heads ; the last also , code of procedure , being in fact but the mode in which the objects of the two other codes are to be carried into effect . The seventh and eighth codes ( so
called ) were not printed , as such , in June 1831 , but the principal laws they contain are the municipal law , ( loi sur Vorganization municipale , ^ the law on the organization of the national guard , ( loi sur Vorganization de la garde nationale de France , ^ and the electoral law , ( loi electorate . ) Under the provisions of the municipal law , the king still nominates the mayors of the communes throughout France , and the ' adjoints' or assistants .
With a chamber of deputies , such as is that of the French , partly chosen under the corrupt overbearing system of Charles X , the patriotic deputies and the public found it impossible , without risking a commotion , which the real republicans in France deprecate , to obtain for the people the restoration of this their unquestionable right , and they were obliged to content
themselves for the present with having wrested from the court the nomination to the inferior offices of the magistracy ; and this monstrous anomaly , unless kings were endued with the attributes of ubiquity and omnipresence , remains for a further period of time a blot on the jurisprudence of France , and a strong proof of the arbitrary disposition even of an elected monarch . The law on the organization of the national guard gives the king the
choice of the commanders of legions , Qes chefs ae legion , ) and of the lieutenant-colonels , out of a list of ten candidates , presented by the legion . Every Frenchman , from the age of twenty to that of sixty years , ( with the exception of ecclesiastics , the students at colleges , soldiers of the line , and a few others , ) is to serve in person in the national guard of the place in which he resides . Their services are limited to the commune or
arrondissement , excepting under particular and special circumstances of local disturbances or national invasion ; in the latter case they ore Domestic Anecdotes of the French Nation , p . 220 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1833, page 108, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2608/page/40/
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