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19 May 1817
Democracy representatives less prone to war than Monarchy

The Greece Republicks – the Roman Republic
had as strong a propensity to war as any of the contemporary
monarchies. Be it so? and rendered how it could it be
otherwise. In case of conquest they always could
and frequently did seize and convert to their own
use not only the whole property of the vanquished
but even their persons, viz. in the character of slaves,
and in one shape or other the lowest individual
of the pretended democracies but in truth (the
multitude of slaves considered) in every instance
real aristocracy had his profit out of it. Donations
of coin – enormously expensive slaves – use
of magnificent public buildings &c &c Panem
et circenses – not Circenses at least in Athens as well as Rome.

To nothing of all this could there be any thing
analogous under a modern representative democracy
or a Monarchy under representative democratical
ascendency.

Identifier: | JB/015/083/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 15.
Date_1	1817-05-19	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	083	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	e3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[prince of wales feathers] i&m 1816]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	arthur wellesley, duke of wellington
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1816
Notes public		ID Number	5299
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