JB/036/193/002

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1821 May 19
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Now as to Case 5. Ruling Functionaries
forming an body, draughtsman the
subjection to their its share, sharing appointed by forming a portion of the whole body
appointed by the rest: in one word a Committee.

Occupied in the seat of business here in question, a
A Board – a Commission, as per Case 3 as above, are
organs of the will of a Monarch: a Committee, of the
will of an aristocratical body. Of the influence which
this difference will make in the character of the draught,
notion intimation has been already given. as to But the draughtsmen
are in both cases more than one: from this circumstance
spring effects which belong to both cases in
common, and which come now to be brought to view.

A Board is a if As to the sort of political implement
in question – call it Board – call it Commission – call
it Committee(a) (a) Note (a) see on the next page the of its distinctive character have intimation has already been given
on more occasions and in more places than one. A Board is a screen:
a folding-screen: a screen for malpractice in every shape: a screen to
the evil-doers from the eventually penal and beneficially
restrictive force of public opinion: an instrument for the
effective res diminution of effective responsibility: the penal
impression being rendered fainter and fainter by every
addition made to the number of the Members: of the
strata, of which or folds, of which, if this be the image employed
the instrument (it may be said) is may be considered as composed. Not
in me but in those others is the fault: such, of each of them,
is the assertion: and of the falsity of this assertion, how compleatly
so ever false, seldom
if ever, can any sufficient
proof be forced
make its appearance. into legal day-light.

Identifier: | JB/036/193/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 36.
Date_1	1822-08-28	Marginal Summary Numbering	11-12
Box	036	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	193	Info in main headings field	constitut. code
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	c wilmott 1819
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	andreas louriottis
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public		ID Number	11117
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