JB/036/159/002

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1822 Feb. 19
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The usefulness of the open mode, and at the same time its undangerousness
being thus manifest, a natural question is how happens
it never to have been anywhere in use? Natural
enough this question: nor is the answer a difficult one. The
In the prevalence of the interest of rulers in the breast of rulers
over the interest of subjects the people subject to the rule may be seen the solution of this
as of so many other problems. The more smaller
the number is of those who are admitted to the exercise of
the initiative function, the greater more efficient is the power of those by
whom the consummative function power is exclusively exercised.
By being prevented from causing an unacceptable law
or measure is much more got rid of in a power less troublesome measure than by its being thrown out
If a law as a measure be unacceptable to you prevent it from
coming or you got rid of it with much less trouble than
if after yo suffering it to come in you had had to if
apply your strength to throw it out: and the smaller the
number is of those all to by whom the faculty of bringing
in any such law or measure is upon possessed, the less the difficulty
you can experience in your endeavours to keep it from being
brought in. The most obvious and simple cause is manifestly
the confining the faculty of introducing a law or measure
to those on by whom to whom is also in a majority of whom appertains the faculty of
giving binding force to it. is possessed Leave the initiative function
to a single person, excluding from it at the same time all those
by to whom is to a majority of whom the consummative power appertains you
put it into his power to reduce these to absolute nothing, give that same
initiative function to a single person without the addition of any such
exclusions their power is not destroyed indeed: but still it
is to a certain degree weakened.

Identifier: | JB/036/159/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 36.
Date_1	1822-07-01	Marginal Summary Numbering	7-10
Box	036	Main Headings	constitutional code rationale
Folio number	159	Info in main headings field	constitut. code rationale?
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	a4 / b4 / d4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	11083
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