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1821 March 8
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Note that in In this close mode, as between and

1822 March 7.
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any number of stages of subordination as between workmen and workmen may have
place: in each stage, any number of workmen, and on the
part of each, with or without observance and consent of superiors,
this or that pernicious suggestion, of sinister interest,
interest-begotten prejudice, authority begotten prejudice, or
inbred intellectual weakness, may be have slipt in, and contributed
to give their encrease to the aggregate mass of inaptitude

in the work.

In each state, in the breast of each individual, contributing or not contributing labour, but in either case exercising influence,
there will be two distinct distinguishable masses of particular and sinister
interests, in perpetual action against the universal interest:
namely 1. Whatsoever sinister interests may chance to appertain
to him in his individual capacity. 2. Whatsoever particular
and sinister interests appertain to whatsoever particular
class or classes of men he happens to belong to: and, to the
same man it may happen, to belong, at the same time,
to little less than the whole number of the classes included
in the aggregate of the Aristocratical classes.(a) (a) Note in another page.

Suppose even the case to be that of a Commonwealth, altogether
clear of monarchy, or a Monarchy in which the Monarch
has no share in the legislative power. The workmen, on whom,
in the first instance, the texture of the work would depends,
will in this case be the members of a Legislation Committee.
The sinister interest here predominant, will be the interest of the legislative
aristocracy: and, in the breast of each member, whatsoever
other branches of the Aristocracy it happens to him to belong
to, to that his larger sinister interest will be added those their several
smaller sinister interests.(a) As to the sinister interest of belonging to the
Legislative Aristocracy as such, it is an object the existence of which obvious and undeniable.
What it prompts to, is – the giving, to the aggregate mass of emolument,
power and factitious dignity attached to the Executive
branch of the whole Official Establishment, Government the utmost magnitude
possible, that, in their own persons, or those of their
respective connections, the shares obtained and enjoyed
by them the Members of the Legislative branchmay be proportionably abundant.

As to the other branches of the Aristocratical interest – of
itself, no one of them can do anything, for itself. But, with the assistance
of the legislative branch, they may, each of them, do anything.
The sinister interest, common to the legislative body, has therefore
for its natural ally and supporter, the sinister interest of every one of those
other branches.

To the reader, according to the Constitution of the political state
he belongs to, – to the reader
it must be left, to take
note and observation, of
these several stages: with
the present design, no
such detail would be
consistent compatible.

Identifier: | JB/036/174/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 36.
Date_1	1822-08-03	Marginal Summary Numbering	or 1
Box	036	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	174	Info in main headings field	constitut. code england
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	11098
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