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1822 Aug. 28
Constitut. Code

Taken in its largest sense, the word corruption is a word employed
to denote the deterioration of any subjects in which the opera-
considered as the name of an operation is a word employed to denote a
change made for the worse in the condition of any subject on which the operation
is considered, as having been being performed. It is moreover
employed to denote the result of that same operation:
namely the deteriorated condition so produced in which
the subject is considered as thereby placed: the subject is
thereupon spoken of as being corrupt having been corrupted. as they corrupted

Example is Corruption is to break up: to break up the
texture of the subject; and thereby with which has become associated
the further idea of its having been thereby rendered unfit or less for
use, whatsoever were the use.

Applied to government – considered as an instrument
of bad government, it imports with a change for the
made, or as above the making of a change in the condition
of some member or members of the community of the and thence
if the whole community taken in the aggregate.

Employed to denote Spoken of as an instrument of Misrule – of bad government – corruption
is spoken of as a fictitious is the name of a fictitious entity, spoken of as an instrument or
say a say a subordinate agent, in the hand of that other another
fictitious entity, stiled Bad Government – misgovernment
bad rule, misrule. To say in this case that this
subordinate instrument this agent has produced a the corresponding
effect is to say that by its action or say operation some subject
has been corrupted, and is become corrupt. Misrule being
exercised over a community by its some ruler or rulers, the subject considered
as spoken of belong either to the class of person or to
the class of things. If to the class of persons it must belong
either to the class of those over whom rule is considered as exercised
or to the class of those over whom rule is considered as
exercised. It might
It


Identifier: | JB/036/191/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 36.

Date_1

1822-08-28

Marginal Summary Numbering

1-5

Box

036

Main Headings

constitutional code

Folio number

191

Info in main headings field

constitut. code

Image

001

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

c1

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

c wilmott 1819

Marginals

jeremy bentham

Paper Producer

andreas louriottis

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

1819

Notes public

ID Number

11115

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