JB/036/127/002

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1822 Feb. 16
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Insufficient is the present , the By no other institution or assemblage of institutions which have
widely insufficient would will be is the part relative it be place or that can have place in that nation whatsoever it
which the subject many can make any form of government be in which the form of government is in the highest degree contributory
turns on the chance of their to the greatest happiness of the greatest number can the
demand for the institution here in question, simple as it is
be altogether superseded, still less made any form of government
in an inferior degree contributory to that exclusively defensible end.

True it is that in all nations professing liberal
opinions – in all nations to which this proposal is
addressed – in all nations to which it could be addressed
with any so much as the slightest expectation
of finding acceptance, true it is that there exists
a body of men by whose in whose will in the character of constituents,
a set of functionaries bearing a part more or less considerable
in the power of legislation in quality of their
representatives will naturally feel a bridle: a bridle
operating with more or less efficiency according to the
form of government.

But Not true at the same time is it, that even under that form of government which
whichever it be in which that bridle the direction
given to that bridle is most apt and the force of it
most efficient, the efficiency of it can be such as to
supersede the demand for the bridle here proposed, the
bridle imposed apt which it is in the nature of the proposed
free and universal initiative in legislation to the apply
to the consumative power the bridge which the consummative
power of legi legislation will experience from the
proposed free and universally open initiative.

By no part influence which through the medium and by the hands
of their representative the great body of the subject many in quantity of possessors of constitutive power can
possession have exercise on the operation of thos the functionaries
invested with the legislative branch of the supremely operative power can
the demand for this security against bad legislation corrupt laws be superseded.

Identifier: | JB/036/127/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 36.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	1-7
Box	036	Main Headings	constitutional code rationale
Folio number	127	Info in main headings field	constitut. law rationale
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	a7 / b1 / c1 / d7
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	11051
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