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1822 Aug. 14
Constitut. Code

No advantage bearing reference to the greatest happiness of
the greatest number – no such advantage did men ever attempt
to ar bring to view in the character of a reason for a House
of Lords for an assembly composed of members of the privileged
order sitting by hereditary succession or for life.

Use Benefit Support to the Monarch yes: use benefit to the Aristocracy, yes: to
the Monarchy it gives stability: to the Aristocracy in all its
parts profit by encrease of power and profit by a share more or less
considerable in the profit of by legalized depredation: the House
will not let the King have come in for a share, unless the King will let the
House come in for a share.

As to the greatest number – viz to the great body of the people
encre greater would be the advantage to those if wolves in equal
number or in a number by ever so much greater it were
imported from a wolf country and turned out loose into the
country: the wolves would in process of time be shot killed, and for
every wolf shot killed there would be a wolf skin which would
have be good for something: the Lords could not though
each of them would do more mischief than many thousand
solves would not be killed, and if they were killed their
skins would not be put to any use.

If this be true for a man to propose a House of Lords
is in other words to declare himself a corruptionist: to the
title of Liberal no better pretension has he thus been the
partizan of the most absolute Monarchy. The one is a declared
enemy of the people: the other an undeclared one: the audacity
is the character of the one: imposture and treachery, of the other.

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Date_1	1822-08-14	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	036	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	175	Info in main headings field	constitut. code
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	11099
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