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1822 Aug 16
Constitut. Code

Be the act what it may, there are two ways modes in either of which a may may be divested
of the interest requisite to his performance of it: one is the
over-powering the force of whatsoever body of interest may be calling
in him in a direction tending to engage him in the performance
of it: this is the direct mode. The other is –
the divesting him of the power of performing that same act.
For that which is in his own eyes eyes it is not in a man's
power to perform, it can not in his own eyes be his interest
to endeavour to perform: it can never be a man's
interest to expend time and labour without effect. In Considered
in its application to a man's interest this mode may be
termed an indirect mode.

Thus it is that by one and the same arrangement
application may be made to both the power and the will and the power at the same time
and in either mode the requisite junction of interests is capable
of being effected or promoted secured.

The A question that now immediately presents itself
is it that to any individual supposing him invested by
the Constitution in question with the supreme power, any inducement
can by that same Constitution be applied, if sufficient force to overpower
any sinister interest to the operation of which the he is
by his situation he stands exposed? Inducements affecting operating on interests
the are all of them reducible to two denominations – punishment
and reward. Punishment in every shape his situation suffices
to prevent his standing exposed to: So likewise reward. For
being by the supposition invested with supreme power, the matter of reward
can not be applied to him in any shape in which he has not
already at his command whatsoever it would be in the power
of the Constitution by any particular arrangement to confer on
him. To him who is has the whole, it is useless to give this or that part.

Identifier: | JB/036/088/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 36.
Date_1	1822-08-16	Marginal Summary Numbering	18-20
Box	036	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	088	Info in main headings field	constitut. code
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	a14 / b9 / d14 / e9
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	c wilmott 1819
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	andreas louriottis
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public		ID Number	11012
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