JB/036/043/001

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1821. May 14.

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In every case, the false conception or false judgment,
whichsoever be the word] produced, is the conception or judgment
of appropriate aptitude in its several shapes, with relation to the
business of Government, as having existence in the hands by
which the power in question is possessed and exercised. Conception
may be the word in consideration of the rapidity with which
the delusive effect is produced: judgment, in consideration of
the permanence of the effects which, by this means, are produced.

On this occasion as on others, aptitude is to be considered
with reference to the end: with reference to the production of
the effect the production of which is the end in view. In the present
instance, Government being the means, the greatest happiness
of the greatest number is the only defensible end. On the
part of the person or persons in question, aptitude, then, is aptitude
for the producing — thence probability of their producing —
the greatest happiness of the greatest number, as above.

On this occasion as on every other, of this aptitude there
will be three distinguishable shapes, elements or branches: viz
appropriate moral aptitude, appropriate intellectual aptitude, appropriate
active talent.

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Under a Representative Democracy, the probability of consummate
aptitude in every one of these shapes is at its maximum.

Under an absolute Monarchy, the probability of appropriate aptitude
in these several shapes is at its minimum.

Under a limited Monarchy, the probability of appropriate
aptitude in these its several shapes is at a middle point betwixt the
maximum and the minimum as above. The delusive effect endeavoured conception & judgment
to be produced, and but too extensively produced accordingly, is this —
viz that in an absolute Monarchy, and so in a limited Monarchy, on the part of the possessor and possessors of power, appropriate
aptitude, if not with relation to the only defensible and as above, at
any rate with relation to the proper business of Government, whatsoever it be, is consummate.

Identifier: | JB/036/043/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 36.
Date_1	1821-05-14	Marginal Summary Numbering	or 1 - or 3
Box	036	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	043	Info in main headings field	first lines
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e1
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks	c wilmott 1819
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	andreas louriottis
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public		ID Number	10967
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