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or
1. How all Monarchy – in a word how all men in essence in so far as they
power act up to the self regarding answer.
2. Then how but for certain obstacles all power ought to be in all hands
and still ought to be in a few as those obstacles how removed –viz. want
of esteem for intelligent & active talent.

Elements of Political Deontology

Ch. 1. Political Deontology applied to the form of government – maximum
of perfection maximized in regard to by love of the end in view

Question and Answer.

Ch. §. 1. The purest democracy consistent with government is the only
form of government under which the maximum of happiness can really be the object aimed at.

Q. What is the best system of Government.

A. The My answer will necessarily be different according
as it is dictated by to the self-regarding or the social
otherwise called the sympathetic class of my affections that I allott the task of furnishing
it.

Q. How so? – How can this be? to one and the same
question, two different answers? – and this without falshood or absurdity

A. Yes. Because if it be self-regarding, the answer will
be that system which is most in the highest degree conducive to my own
individual happiness, or if you please in the highest
degree conducive to my own individual interest:
whereas if it be the social class of my affections the my
answer will be – that which is the most highly in the highest degree conducive
to the greatest happiness of the greatest number
of the persons whose happiness is on the occasion in question
taken into consideration.

Q. And so Instead of the one answer which was
the question called for, are you not thus giving two, and
those two mutually contradictory ones?

A. If they are so, I can not help it: what
the question called for was a true answer; and no other
answer would or could have been a true one.

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Date_1	1816-05-26	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	005	Info in main headings field	deont. polit.
Image	001	Titles	elements of political deontology / ch. 1 political deontology applied to the form of government - maximum of perfection maximized with regard to the end in view
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	john dickinson & c<…> 1813
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Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1813
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