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1823 June 29
Constitut. Code

Monarchs interest how far opposite to, how far coincident with
the universal interest

A community of interest (it may be said) has place between
a Monarch and his subjects: and this community of interest will
suffice for securing them against ill treatment at his hands: nay: for securing
to them the best treatment in his power. True. There is
a community of interest between a Postmaster and his
Post-horses: but this community of interest does suffices not suffice
for saving them from an untimely death at the end of a life
of torment. The interest which a Monarch has in common with
his subjects is not sufficient to render him in general so well
disposed towards his subjects as a Postmaster is to his Post-horses.
The horses It is not By the horses nothing
is usually done to produce by which irritation and hatred towards them
are produced in the breast of the Master. By the subjects much is constantly
done by which irritation and hatred and continually received
irritation is produced in the breast of the Monarch.

Yet of whatsoever there is in common between the two interests In the breast of every Monarch the tendency of his disposition
is at all times and at all places to produce the greatest
infelicity of the greatest number. Such is everywhere the tendency
necessarily produced by his situation: and such everywhere, except in a few
as accidental circumstances have come up in opposition to such
tendency has been, and so long as a Monarchy exists upon the
face of the earth will be – the effect.

The more particularly the several shapes in which interest
has place in the two situations are examined into – the several
departments in the field of legislation to which it applies are
examined into, the less numerous the parts and extensive the scale of coincidence, the
more numerous and extensive the scale of opposition as between
the two interest will be ever to be.

Identifier: | JB/036/130/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 36.
Date_1	1822-06-29	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-5
Box	036	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	130	Info in main headings field	constitut. code
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	b1 / d7 / e1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	11054
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