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16 June 1816
Political Deontology

No there should be and must be a weight on the
opposite and correspondent and opposite scale. And
this weight to produce and any effect what
must it be? It must be a weight exactly equal
to the one first mentioned.

But if this be the of the case, then so it
is that on the part of those whose power is represented
by this counterpoise as towards the people no
such thing relation as a as the relation of dependence has place.
The people indeed are till in the vice of the machine
dependent upon them those power holders: but are those
power holders in every way dependent upon the people.

But in this supposition in what state is the Constitution
represented by this machine. Does it go on continue at work
in the exercise of exercising its functions? No: it is at a stand.

But on the part in the case of a government body politic as in the
case of a body national no sooner does a cessation
of its functions take place than if that cessation
be continued, death takes place. That then which the
theory with its image represents as actually and are necessarily
having place is – not the existence and action of the
body in question but the destruction of it.

Yet upon this idle dream rests the theory of
the B English Constitution, and it is upon the to by and with the
proof afforded by this dream that men who read
without thinking are so highly delighted and compleatly
interested.

Identifier: | JB/015/036/001 "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	036	Info in main headings field	political deontology
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	<…> co
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Notes public		ID Number	5252
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