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1822 July 14
Constitut. Code. Rationale

§. These powerful malefactors are more depraved than any powerless ones.

The degree of deliberation deliberateness steadiness and perseverance with by
which the committers of depredation and oppression on the
large scale are on the scale of atrocity placed so much high
above the committer doers of evil in the same like shapes on the small scale,
has been already mentioned. Even among those them on the all comprehensive
scale th degrees have place which reg such as present a demand
for notice. In By a limited Monarchy, with a sham
Representative body fastened to the people's shoulders of the a degree of
atrocity in this shape is exhibited such as in an absolute Monarchy
affords no place for is to be found. When in an absolute Monarchy
for the purpose of subduing or anticipating resistance a Minister the
persons instrument of the dispute will given an order for and
prosecution in the course of which torture according to ordinance
or precedent has place, the image of the suffering is scarcely
before his eyes. The order is given; and as to the consequences to the sufferer
before his eyes the matter has neither call nor time to think of them. Deeper by far is the dye of depravity,
when under an limited Monarchy the sharers in the power
after their attention has been called over again to
the misery that has been produced their attention called to it, and
nailed down to it for hours together, perseveres in the determination
to have it not only unpunished but unconceived.

By James the second of England, of Scotland depravity
quite sufficient to place him high on the scale was
exhibited when while and witnessing and superintending the application of the torture of the
in the to the purpose of extracting
self- criminative testimony such as to the effect desired. Still
does he remain inferior to surpassed by that namesake of his if
such an one there really were, who after superintending from a
certain Essex Bridge the application made of the torture of the whip to the like
purpose could sit in public while the imputation was fastening upon him,
and unmoved himself, engage secure the like immobility, and with it the effect of approbation, at the hands on the part of a set of men, engaged, and paid with public money, to
give in their situation sinister conformable and uttermost effect to atrocity in whatever
shape it may at any time come recommended to them by a man from his.

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Date_1	1822-07-14	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	036	Main Headings	constitutional code rationale
Folio number	153	Info in main headings field	constitut. code rationale
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman 1819
Marginals		Paper Producer	john flowerdew colls
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public		ID Number	11077
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