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1822 July 22

Aphorisms, at the commencement or at the conclusion.

1. In the scale of appropriate moral aptitude – aptitude
with relation to the function of a functionary of government
in a government having for its ground the greatest happiness
principle a mans attitude is, naturally speaking, inversely
as his attitude in the scale of propriety, composed meaning
that which is composed of the contiguous and conjunct scales of power, opulence
and factitious honor.

2. So, in the scale of appropriate intellectual aptitude
necessary external means of information being supposed equal.

3. So in the scale of appropriate active aptitude.

4 On all three accounts taken together, the place of the absolute
Monarch will in the aggregate scale of the three scales of appropriate
aptitude, be naturally lower than that of the be
individual at the lowest degree point.

5. The place of the limited Monarch will naturally
be at a point less next above that of the absolute Monarch
higher than that of a limited Monarchy, it will be but below that of a member of a purely Aristocratical government.
as his attitude in the scale of

6. Among th Limited Monarchy the place of each one
in the aggregate scale of appropriate aptitude will be inversely
as his attitude in the scale of prosperity, and in particular
as his attitude in the scale of power: directly as
the quantity substracted from his power by the aggregate of the
limitations annexed applying to it.

7. The place of a Member of a purely Aristocratical
government will naturally be above that of a Limited Monarchy
but below that of an average individual not ever belonging to
the class of supremely ruling those functionaries among whom supreme
rule is shared.


Identifier: | JB/036/169/001
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1822-07-22

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036

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constitutional code rationale

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169

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001

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text sheet

Number of Pages

1

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recto

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c1

Penner

jeremy bentham

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11093

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