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1822 June 29
Constitut. Code

2. Take in the next place the four immediately subordinate
ends of the non-penal or distributive branch of law: Subsistence, Abundance,
Security and Equality in so far as the least less important
are compatible with the more important, maximized.

1. Subsistence. For it is true it is his interest they should have: that is to say
such of them as are in a condition to work and can be made to
work: for, unless he lives, man can not work. for man can not work any longer than he has.

But it is the interest of the greatest number that whether able
or not able to work they should live or what is excluded the having subsistence which is as much as to
say that they should subsist that they should have subsistence.

2. Abundance. This also it is his interest they should have,
and greater the quantity the more they acquire produce and thence have, the greater the quantity
which it will be in his power, as it can not fail to be in
his inclination, to get of them those for himself. But to say
as by any act of his, any addition how small soever,
which could not otherwise be made to the stock of the matter of
abundance to the stock of this pretious matter passing into and
through his hands, how great the may be the quantity which
by this same act is taken out of those hands or prevented
from finding its way into them ask to this same personal interest of his be matter of indifference.

3. Security. Security is for body, mind, reputation, pecuniary property,
condition in power, condition in life: it is against against injury
at the hands of external external evil doers, internal evil-doers not
being functionaries, and internal evil-doers being functionaries.
Security against evil external evil doers, i.e. against foreign
enemies his personal interest, interest promots him to maximize, so
long far as no profit expectation of profit presents itself from the restriction or
diminution or destruction of it. But that which he is continually upon the
watch to get is, an augmentation of the mass of the external instruments of
felicity in his hands at the expence of other communities: and by means in the way
of wars, that is murder upon the largest scale, this he man can get but by the desire alone and or to so immediate destruction of the security of his subjects as for the several
possessions above mentioned.

Identifier: | JB/036/133/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 36.
Date_1	1822-06-29	Marginal Summary Numbering	9-12
Box	036	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	133	Info in main headings field	constitut. code
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	b4 / d9 / e4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	11057
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