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1823. May 25
Constitut. CodePreface

In proportion as of the arrangements here proposed, and
the reasons by on which they were grounded and by which they are
explained and justified, or at least endeavoured to be justified, application is made
to the corresponding arrangements made by English law or
English practice, the reader may still observe that from first
to last, with few or no exceptions nothing can be more opposite.

For expressing the cause of this contrariety, few indeed
are the words that will be found sufficient. In each case the
contrariety will be found to have one and the same cause,
namely in each case the nature of the end in view: that end being in each
one of the two cases a direct opposite of that which it is in
the other. In the here proposed Code of every proposed arrangement
from first to last without any one exception the end in view
is the greatest happiness of the greatest number. Of the several arrangements discernible in the English system At no time
in and no one instance has the greatest happiness of the greatest
number been the end in view. At all times, on every occasion
in every instance the end actually pursued by the
several sets of rulers has been the promotion of the particular and thence sinister
interests of those same rulers. Look the castle all over – look
the line of history all over – in no one place – at no one
time has have the arrangements have any arrangement of government had for its object any other object
than the interest of those by whom it has been made. In this
case as in every other, in so far as the felicity of the
greater number has been the result, the cause of its being
so is that without seeking in the particular in question without
seeking the insurance of their own personal felicity it was not in their
power to avoid seeking the insurance of the felicity of the greater
number. In our state of things case where lies therefore the conducement
of the arrangements in question to the felicity of the greatest number
matter of design: and that has been where between the in
virtue of the constitution under which they were acting the two interests
so far that without servicing in the particulars in question in equal or similar measure the interests
of the greatest number the rulers in question found themselves under the inability
of serving their
own particular interests.

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Date_1	1823-05-25	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	036	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	210	Info in main headings field	constitut. code
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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