JB/036/124/002

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1822 Jany. 20
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§. 5. §. 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.

For the simple statement of the reasons which plead in
favour of this arrangement the here proposed arrangement few
words are necessary: but for exhibiting them any they like in their full force
would require a little volume.

The but simple statement may be given as follows the few words following may suffice –

1. The greater the number of such draughts, each from a
different hand, the greater the chance that the one in which all
parts taken together is the fittest will be before the public eye
and in consequence be adopted.

2. The greater the number produced as above, the greater the chance
that in to such correcti amendments imperfections as may
have place in that one which upon the whole obtains the preference
may well receive apt amendments will be suggested
by the view of those other draughts.

3. By The greater the number produced, as above, the greater
the chance probability that the original draught will not be the work of
any person, possessing whose situation gives him a share in the power of giving authorit to it the
force of law, and consequently operating under the influence of
those causes of inaptitude to which the work of every man
in any such situation is unavoidably exposed necessarily and constantly exposed.

Identifier: | JB/036/124/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 36.
Date_1	1822-07-02	Marginal Summary Numbering	10
Box	036	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	124	Info in main headings field	constitut. code
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c5 / c1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	c wilmott 1819
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	andreas louriottis
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public		ID Number	11048
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