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1823. May 2d.

21.
Small the evil even
from external, compared
with do. from internal
official adversaries.
External commonly resistible;
internal, irresistible:
foreign, if resisted
in vain, commonly
withdrawn, after
success. If they continue,
they become the official
irresistible adversaries.

22.
To provide security against
internal official
adversaries is the direct
and peculiar object of the
Constitutional branch
of law – thence of this Code.
In one form of Government
there is none: in
another it is entire: in
all the others there is some more or less
but continually diminishing.

23.
4. Equality. Of subsistence,
abundance and
Security, the titles to the
appellation of instruments
of felicity stamped
on the face of their names.
Not so of Equality.

24.
Equality implies distribution.
Subjects of distribution
are either benefits
or burthens.
Benefit i.e. extract instruments
of felicity; considered
as resulting to
one of two from
the action of anothe:
burthens, i.e. evils, from the
same cause.

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25.
From inequality in the
allotment of benefit, i.e.
instruments of felicity,
come two evils: 1. domestic
or civil: 2 political
or constitutional.

26.
1. Domestic: in so far as
the subject is the matter
of wealth: ie. of subsistence
and abundance.

27.
It has place thus.
The more remote from equality
the distribution
of the instruments, the less
the felicity.

28.
The political evil has
place in so far as power
is the subject matter.
It has plus thus. The
greater the power, the greater
the incitement to, and facility
for, abuse.
Directly, the position applies
to power only: indirectly,
to wealth also:
each being an instrument
by which the other is acquired.

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So, to factitious dignity.

29.
Exemplifications & proof
Monarchy. To the Monarch
is allotted a share equal to the subsistence
of from 10,000 to
100,000 of those, from whom,
when produced by their labour,
it is extorted. Doubtful
still whether his felicity
is greater than that of one of
theirs on average is, or
at least would be but for the extortion.

30.
Certain, that of a gloomy
ill-tempered or diseased
Monarch, the felicity is not
so great, as of a cheerful,
good-tempered, and healthy
labourer.

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31.
Still if, by such Monarch,
a net quantity of felicity
be produced, over and
above do. by an Executive
Chief, whose pay is not a
two hundredth part as
great, the evil of the inequality
is overbalanced:
but to prove the affirmative
lies on the assertors.

32.
If, where the excess of the
instruments of felicity
is so small great, so small
and questionable is the do.
of felicity, still more so
must it be in proportion
as it is smaller & smaller.
The proof applicable, as
above, to the case of Monarchy, serves
therefore for that of Aristocracy.

33.
Hence, security undiminished,
the less the inequality
in the distribution of
the instruments of felicity,
the greater the felicity.

34.
Burthen is distributed
on account of delinquency
or not. On account of delinquency,
for punishment
or for compensation: i.e.
for production of correspondent
benefit in compensation
for antecedent
damage.

35.
Correspondent to evil by
inequality in addition, is
do. by subtraction, but
greater. The smaller the
mass of a man's possessions,
the greater the evil
produced by abstraction of
a given quantity. In him
who has but £100, abstraction
of £50, produces more
suffering than in him who
has £200.

Identifier: | JB/034/022/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 34.
Date_1	1823-05-02	Marginal Summary Numbering	21-28, 28*, 29-35
Box	034	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	022	Info in main headings field	constitut. code
Image	001	Titles	security / equality
Category	marginal summary sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e2
Penner	jeremy bentham; john flowerdew colls	Watermarks	j whatman 1821
Marginals		Paper Producer	admiral pavel chichagov
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1821
Notes public		ID Number	10296
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