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1822 July 19
Constitut. Code. Rationale

In England there ever since the accession of the Oxford English Crown
King after since the Revolution viz. George the 3 there has been a party
in opposition to the Minister of the Kings choice and thereby to
the King. The Ministry for the time being they could have now been able to well attack
without attacking in some part or other the system of abuse and
sinister sacrifice, and thereby and so far serving the cause
of the people. But in so far as they have so done they have
been giving constant offence to the King while those more
prosperous antagonists have been occupied in the doing of his
will in so far as it has been done. In the very nature of
the case this situation they could not therefore do anything against the
King and his Minister without doing something for the people
and professing some principle by which a sort of continual warrant could be
afforded for whatsoever they were doing. This principle however
never could be the greatest happiness principle since by
that if followed up with any , the grand and universal
and constant object of their wishes would be reduced to
that which would be nothing in heir eyes. Prevented then
from being either Absolute Monarchists or Democrats they have been
all along confined to the a middling course which by which they were
determined to be Aristocrats. According to this the form of government
must remain the same: for to their interest the preservation
of it is not less necessary than to the interest of the men in power
their antagonists. But the hands in which the power is must be
different: they must be their hands: and when in their hands
the form must be such as will keep it there: an Aristocracy
of which they were are Members need be not only found continued: but
strengthened: strengthened in such sort that to displace them shall be no longer in the King's power. Such accordingly was the
object of the East India Bill brought in by Charles Fox in the
course of the short reign in which this Bill put an end. The object of it
was to transfer the Patronage of that government into their hands.

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Date_1	1822-07-19	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	036	Main Headings	constitutional code rationale
Folio number	148	Info in main headings field	constitut. code rationale
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c5?
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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