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1822 Jany 29. 1822 Aug. 6. Constitut. Code. Codification Offer

Number Unapt.

35 or 1.| 206

Sinister interests are
1. Modifications (all) of
Monarchical interest.
2. Branches (all) of
Aristocratical interest.
Point to which they
all tend — suppression
of free political discussion.

36 or 2.| 207

Characteristic and adequate
of despotic
power is impunity:
viz. as to misdeeds
which in possessors of
the power, would be
offences &c.

37 or 3. 208

Compleat, impunity is
as against moral as
well as political sanction.

38 or 4. |209

Opposed to impunity
as against both sanctions
is liberty of
public political discussion:
1. by indication of misdeeds
by them & theirs
2. by comments on do.
3. by general expressions
of disapprobation.

39 or 5. 210

Content that every
man should enjoy
unlicentious
liberty is every
man: licentious, no
man. Licentious is whatever
a man does not
like to see enjoyed by
others: viz. what in
his view is repugnant
to his own interest.


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Number Unapt.

40 or 6. 211

Adverse to his interest
in his view of it is every
act by which limits
are endeavoured to be
set to the gratification
of his appetite for power,
wealth and dignity: or
to any opinion or taste of
his.

41 or 7. 212

Of every member of the
ruling and influential
few it is the interest
that no misdeed of his
be disapproved, commented
on, made known:
therefore that all manifestation
of such disapprobation
& be prevented.

Prevention compleat
impossible, that all be
in a form as weak as
possible: he and his giving
to every thing in
his favour a form as
strong as possible: he
and his giving to every
thing in
a form as strong as possible.



Identifier: | JB/034/035/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 34.

Date_1

1822-01-29

Marginal Summary Numbering

35 or 1 - 41 or 7

Box

034

Main Headings

constitutional code

Folio number

035

Info in main headings field

constitut. code

Image

001

Titles

Category

marginal summary sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

d5 / e1

Penner

jeremy bentham; john flowerdew colls

Watermarks

[[watermarks::i&m [prince of wales feathers] 1818]]

Marginals

Paper Producer

arthur wellesley, duke of wellington

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

1818

Notes public

ID Number

10309

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