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26 May 1816
Deont. Polit.

Q. Well then – Setting aside the self regarding answer
from which no further light nor any further satisfaction
is to be obtained, let us confine ourselves to the social
one. What is that form of government which is
in the highest degree conducive to the greatest happiness
of the greatest number.

A. That which gives or leaves to the greatest number the
greatest quantity of hi power the exercise of which with effect they
are capable of directing to their with correspondent effect
to that mind end.

☞ Soon after that explain the obstacles that affect the
offence in the hands of all viz. want of, 1. time, 2. intelligence,
3. talent.

2. State how all power is in one part of obedience in another

3. State how it may be and is that the same person who exercises
power on some occasion, pays obedience on others

4. Hence the deductions which by the above deficiencies must
be made at in all states of things from the number of persons capable
of exercising power with advantage to themselves – such as
infants, idiots, persons &c.

5. How has the want of time thus prevents individuals
from exercising power in person prevents them not from exercising
it by deputy: and here show the difference between
proxy and conjunct election.

6. If by each person all the power he has is employed in the
producing of as much the maximum of happiness as possible to that one, so by every
all will all the power they possess be employed in the producing of
the maximum of happiness to all

8. So far as he is seen to promote his own private happiness at
the expence of the aggregate happiness each perso individual will naturally
be opposed by all the rest. But, so far as he is seen to promote
the happiness of all or of any one or more, otherwise than at the expence of
a greater portion of
happiness to all or to a
greater number, he will
naturally not experience
any such opposition.

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Date_1	1816-05-26	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	008	Info in main headings field	deont. polit.
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d4 / e4 / f4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	<…> co
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