JB/036/025/001

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1821. April 25
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Constitutional
Finance
(3.)

In a limited Monarchy, the Financial Department has
for its actual end the opposite of frugality, waste — the maximum of waste.

In this species Under this form of Government, this waste has three
objects:

1. [Personal] participation to the several appetites of the
ruling one and the sub-ruling influential and opulent few. This object,
in so far as regards the appetites of the ruling one, it has in common
with absolute monarchy.

2. Corruption: exercise of corruptive influence for the
purpose of securing corrupt obsequiousness on the part of those whose
declared duty, and professed endeavour it is, to keep applied to the respective
powers of the Monarch and the sub-ruling portion of the Aristocracy
those limitations which they respectively acknowledge: corrupt
obsequiousness to the effect of causing them to forbear the keeping
actually applied those several limitations, thus rendering the Government
in form and pretence limited; in effect [to the benefit of the
ruling one, and the sub-ruling the influential, and the opulent few,
and to the sacrifice of the greatest happiness of the greatest number],
absolute.

3. Delusion. In To so far as the waste applies employs itself, by means
of corruptive influence, to the production of corrupt obsequiousness, on
the part of those self-acknowledged and self-professed trustees for
the whole community, it employs itself in rendering them, and, in so
far as it produces its intended effect, it actually does render them, by
so much inferior, in respect of public virtue and good behaviour in respect
of benevolence, and that beneficence which is the fruit of benevolence
upon the most extended largest scale, in a word, with reference to their several functions, appropriate moral aptitude, inferior to the rest of the community taken
at large — inferior to the subject many — inferior to the vast majority
of the whole population of the country. In the same proportion
as those [in whom] on whose part corrupt obsequiousness is produced, are rendered
inferior in these respects, those by whose corruptive influence
this corrupt obsequiousness is produced, are rendered, in at least
an equal degree, inferior.

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Identifier: | JB/036/025/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 36.
Date_1	1821-04-25	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	036	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	025	Info in main headings field	first lines
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c3
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks	c wilmott 1819
Marginals		Paper Producer	andreas louriottis
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public		ID Number	10949
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