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12 July 1816
Polit. Deontology

☞ Ensues and observation. Two forms of government contest
That which is but administered is best.

§. 2. Form of Government – what most desirable.

If in a any community the desirable end of government be as above
the maximum of felicity as above explained, then
so it is that, on certain suppositions and conditions
which have been remain to be explained, that government in which
the greatest possible proportion of the whole number of
its members have each of them the greatest possible
share is the best possible form of government.

This character will be seen to belong to it in
two distinguishable accounts.

1. In proportion as the power to the number of the persons
among whom the aggregate of the powers of government
will be shared as also a proportion to the degree of equality
with which they are shared will be the number
of the persons whose interests are in the exercise of those
powers pursued – pursued in preference to all other i.e.
to all narrower interests.

2. The actual exercise of a share in the powers of government
has for its accompaniment a certain species of pleasure – called
the pleasure of power† † See Spring of .: and the as in the case
of every other so in the case of that species of pleasure
the pleasure of possession has for its forerunner a correspondent
pleasure of expectation⊞, in having regard to power.

Identifier: | JB/015/075/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 15.
Date_1	1816-07-12	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	075	Info in main headings field	polit. deontology ch. 2 forms
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d2 / e1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	john dickinson & co 1813
Marginals		Paper Producer	a. levy
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1813
Notes public		ID Number	5291
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