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19 May 1817
Democracy representatives less prone to vice than Monarchy

5. In case of ill success, the loss will be either in money
or in territory except for instance in the shape of satisfaction to the victors for the cost
of the war, or in territory or in both.

6. If in territory, then in proportion to the quantity
(i.e. the population of the quantity ceded, the sovereign
people are sunk from a state of self-government
into a state of servitude.

7. In case of good success, the chance of profit in the
article of money is scarcely worth thinking about:
it can never be any thing but a mighty small matter
in comparison of the expence necessary to the
bringing matters to such an issue.

8. In the article of territory (peopled territory) no
profit can be gained but on such terms that the
great majority of the people will manifestly have
every thing to fear from it, and nothing to gain by it.

The conquered territory can not be kept but there
must be offices created offices for the government of it:
offices, with power attached to them, necessarily and
by the supposition: and with pecuniary emolument
in a greater or less proportion, directly or indirectly
avoidably or surreptitiously reaped. Here then is so
much of the matter of corruption in the shape of money
power and patronage accumulated in the hands of the
members of the administrative and legislative bodies.

So long as the supposed democracy is really a democracy
no such accumulation can have place without being an object
of just and constant jealousy in the breasts of the ultimately
ruling many. The man who declares his wish to see any
such conquests made
and returned, proclaims
himself thereby an enemy
to liberty – an enemy
to the constitution.

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Date_1	1817-05-19	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	082	Info in main headings field	democracy (representation) less prone to war than monarchy
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	5298
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