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1822 July 1
Constitut. Code. Rationale

Revolution producing change is it individual
its insufficiencies.
☞ After Intellectual as well as Moral Inaptitude as applied to a limited Monarchy. Each are ...
Every mixt monarchy contains in its essence the principle of suicide.

The result is – that in all branches – the inaptitude
is on all occasions has been in all instances, not in the
individual, not in the particular individual in question but
in the situation: – not in the particular nature of the individual in question, in the general nature of the situation; and that
the situation being what it is the inaptitude is
absolutely irreconciliable: and that therefore to the whatsoever
be the political state the existence of any such situation in
the Official Establishment is utterly incompatible with the
greatest happiness of the greatest number, utterly incompatible
with everything to which the appellates of good government can
with any propriety be applied.

That if by a good King is meant a King by whose
existence more happiness would have place in the community than
would have place if neither he nor any other individual offering
the same power were in existence – there never has been
nor ever can be any such person as a good King: and
that every man who is a King is by the mere circumstance
of his being a King rendered of necessity a bad one.

In conjunction with external circumstances, idiosyncracy
may have and in fact to a certain degree always
does render this or that King less bad than this or that other.
But to the purpose practical general existence of the enquiry, every such enquiry into
the character of this or that individual in that same situation
is needless and useless: indeed worse than useless the tendency
of it being to lead men to suppose that by from a substitution of
one individual to another in that situation the evil may
be not incapable capable of receiving a remedy: which as already
shown is not true.

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Date_1	1822-07-01	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	036	Main Headings	constitutional code rationale
Folio number	150	Info in main headings field	constitut. code rationale
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Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
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