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1822 June 29
Constitut. Code

As to security against misdecision on part of functionaries – security against
the abuse of his own peace – the very idea of it is intolerable – if in his hands
power were exposed capable of being abused! as if wrong could be done – be done by
whom no wrong can be done – by him, for whose business by whom of that which if done by another would
be wrong, is by the mere circumstances of its being by him that it is done, considered not rights.

4. . Equality. In a Republic, the instrument of
felicity thus denominated is and
care. It is regarded prized not only as being in its own character
an instrument of felicity an instrument for producing the
greatest quantity of internal felicity itself out of a given quantity of
the external instruments of felicity, but an instrument of
security for security itself: in particular for securing all the
several instruments of felicity to all the members of the community
against the enterprizes of invasions on the part of such of them that have place are
in the situation of public functionaries.

But to the Monarch the very word is an object of abhorrence.
To give admission to it in the list of fit ends of the distributive
branch of law, is at once to put in certain ages his
office: to that the door of the Official Establishment against upon his office.
Of all the imaginable instruments of felicity that can be named not
one is there in which he can endure the idea of some any other
member of the community possessing an equal share.

In particular not so much as an equal share in it
protection of the laws: – in the benefit derived for from the services employed
of the officers belonging to the judicial department, direct, as they are
or ought to be, to the securing to every member of the community his
proper share, in the aggregate stock of the external instruments of felicity,
against evil, in the several shapes in which it is endeavoured
to be excluded by prohibition and punishment attached to the
several misdeeds by which it is liable to be produced.

Identifier: | JB/036/132/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 36.
Date_1	1822-06-29	Marginal Summary Numbering	13-17
Box	036	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	132	Info in main headings field	constitut. code
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	b3 / d10 / e3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman 1819
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	john flowerdew colls
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public		ID Number	11056
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