JB/036/087/002

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1822 Feb. 3
Codification Universal

§. 5. The greatest happiness of the greatest number requires, that
for the function exercised by the drawing of the original
draught of such a Code, the competitors be as many as
without reward at the public expence can be obtained:
and so, for that of proposing alterations in such Draught
as shall have been adopted. Plan for obtaining
Competitors.

What is above be for its subject The contents of the preceding Sections have for their subject the characteristic
nature and plan of the here-proposed work.

What follows has for is The contents of this and the succeeding Section have for their subject the choice of hands
for the execution of it.

On this occasion, never be it out of mind, that the
work in question is – not a body of law in its ultimate
state – in that state in which it receives the sanction
of the sovereign power, – to it is nothing more than the
original draught, drawn up in the view of its eventually
receiving that sanction as above, but not till after having
undergone all such alterations, as by any of the several persons
by among whom respectively the sovereign legislative power in matters
in matters of legislation is shared, shall have been proposed,
and by those whose concurrence is necessary to the
application of that sanction, adopted: in a word by the
several constituted authorities in their behalf constituted.

Yes: if, while from any one or more individuals an
draught original draught or any number of such original
draughts were admitted to the exercise of this function, all other persons were excluded from
the faculty of exercising this function, or even all persons
other than those among whom the power of sanctionment
as above, is shared: But in that according to the number
of the persons sharing in it, by the effect of such general exclusion
coupled with that of the particular admission, an power only
Were in such its state
of things were it
the state of things here proposed,
true it is that
by the admission given
to some, coupled with
might come to be possessed the exclusion put upon
put on the offers not only would
here in question such by power be created,
is not the cause but the very power
which in consideration
of its unnecessary and
mischievous magnitude
it is the object of the very arrangement here proposed, to exclude.

Identifier: | JB/036/087/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 36.
Date_1	1822-08-16	Marginal Summary Numbering	17
Box	036	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	087	Info in main headings field	constitut. code
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	a13 / b8
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	11011
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