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1830 Nov. 28 30
J.B. to BelgiansLetter II
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Jeremy Bentham
to the
Belgic Nation and its Congress
On Kingship and its Equipment
Letter the 2d
(In Continuation)

Of a bad bargain to make the best is to make it not
bad in as small a degree as possible, to diminish its
badness as much as possible. But Well, this same badness –
to diminish it, a necessa to to the showing how it may be
diminished, a necessary preliminary is – the showing in
what it consists: and in so doing, I shall unavoidably
be stating the matter with little or no difference, in the
same manner way as if the question King or no King were
still upon the carpet, and this present address an answer
to it.

Belgians!

I continue

1. Meantime I continue – The question shall there be a King? having
received its decision, and that decision being in the affirmative,
my situation is in that respect rather an untoward one.
In considering what shall be his equipment, what it will
not be possible for me to avoid is to give present
to your view consideration bearing on the thus already
decided question. To the question what shall be his equipment
my answer will be – for no other can it be, as⊞ ⊞ as sparing, as scanty, as narrow, as small, as as niggardly (take these or any other word as strong as you please) be possible as sparing
as possible: for, nothing in that way can he have his such as the nature of the institution
nothing can he have, but that evil – yes – so much pure evil – will may be
may be seen to flow from it. I mean always comparatively speaking
– comparison had with a representative democracy: a
product for which in your latitude the times are ripe.
For, in the early days of society, the institution, of
an evil, was an unavoidable one.

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Date_1	1830-11-28	Marginal Summary Numbering
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