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14 June 1816
Political Deontology

A portion? Good: – but what portion?

For an answer The essence of this theory such as
it is, being to be found altogether solely in the metaphor figure of speech
to find an answer to the above question, it is to this the
theory image presented by this figure that we must apply ourselves have recourse. That the
power of the people should have be balanced means
that A balance is a machine composed of two
beams or scales suspended from a beam resting on the one part of its
middle length commonly the middle upon an immoveable
point called a fulcrum or pivot. That
If no weight be on either scale such in this construction
they will hang both of them upon a level,
if a the weight be then placed on either that one on which
it is placed will descend to a certain point and the other scale ascend: if an
equal weight be then placed on the other elevated
scale that scale will descend, and the two scales
will occupy the same level as before: in this case
as the without a weight on either the two scales were
said to balance each other, so will they with a two
weights they being equal weights – one on each.

Well then suppose the constitution a pair of scales
in the first instance both empty: in the next instance
a mass of constitutive original powers lodged on that one of the two scales in
which the people are metaphor has placed the people.
Here then, will be a proportion on the part of them, in
whose hands is lodged the supreme imperative and effective
power will be as towards the people a proportional
degree of dependence. This according to the theory and
correspondent image in question ought not to have place.

Identifier: | JB/015/035/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 15.
Date_1	1816-06-14	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	035	Info in main headings field	political deontology
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	john dickinson & c<…> 1813
Marginals		Paper Producer	a. levy
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1813
Notes public		ID Number	5251
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