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Constitut. Code

No such Reform can be carried into effect but by a power
which is sufficient to go further, and abolish the office of him
with whom means of happiness the greatest happiness of the greatest number
is incompatible, and the power of that unelected Assembly of the
whose particular and sinister interest is not less at variance with the universal interest
than the particular and sinister interest of the Monarch.

Leave the two Offices untouched, you leave an injured King
and an injured House of Lords. Now leave where you find
him a man enraged with the sense of that which in his view
is injury, and you leave him with the means of self reinstatement
and vengeance in his hands. Easier much easier
is the whole of the work than this same half. The whole is
eminently simple: the half is as eminently complicated.

Leave the half to instances, you have unremoved all the
merit possible all the intellectual absurdity which defiles with which it is
defiled. The same system of shameless and indefatigable
lying. The lies you can not leave untouched, nor
the same practical enormities misdeeds inferences which have been at all times
deduced from them will continue to be deduced. You cannot leave
in office a King but you have in office a functionary who
can not do wrong: that is to say who by doing wrong has
by the universal declaration of all, who has at any time
thus spoken of him exerc possessed and exercised his power
of converting into right whatsoever wrong his sinister interest
and views are prompted him to committ. You can not
continue the office in existence without continuing endeavouring
to give perpetuity to by far the foulest system of moral immorality
as well as the grossest system of absurdity that the art of man
ever imagined.

When in the past King and Lords have been acquiescence has in any
way been produced, to leave them in possession of their power would is
be to leave them with arms in their hands that thus in a condition to fight
the matter over again. Very generous this indeed but to whom? let the
one and to three hundred: to those hundreds generous: but to the four times
as many millions still more ungenerous.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	11-13
Box	036	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	160	Info in main headings field	constitut. code
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	a5 / d5
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	c wilmott 1819
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	andreas louriottis
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public		ID Number	11084
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