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1823. May 25
Constitut. Code

But under the English Constitution, not to speak of others,
those by whom the powers of government have been exercised have
at all times had an interest and consequently a desire operating in direct opposition to
that of their subjects: and having by the supposition before
in their hands the corresponding power, the power to give effect
to that same interest and that same desire. Such according correspondent to
here be the consequence: the sacrifice of the interest and felicity
of the greater number of the particular and thus
sinister interest of those same rulers.

In no instance has any benefit the receipt of which has being
been of reward by the governed would be have been productive attached
with any corresponding sacrifice in any shape on the part
of the ruler been conferred on the people but under a
sense of necessity and with reluctance: none in the case of design,
now but either of necessity or accident, has any such
benefit been the result.

Taking therefore the whole system of government in
all its parts and more particularly the constitutional branch never in the direct ratio, always in the indirect
ratio of its strength has been the felicity of the people greater
number.

At no time have the constituent number of the governing body
at no time has the Monarch, at no time have the hereditary
Aristocracy, at no time the proprietors possessor of seats on the
of , at no time have the Clergy had any
under at no time have the Judges had any other better
endeavour in doing than to encrease swell each of the in
power to its utmost possible pitch the each on its own part despotic. To the
interest of the law taken in its totality – to its and
to its strength are the people for every thing in the condition
by which they are distinguished for that in whether
it be in which the people are in the most insensible degree oppressed.
But of the And the interests in what sources has it arisen? Answer
from the sinister interest and particular retention of the lawyer
tribe.

Identifier: | JB/036/211/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 36.
Date_1	1823-05-25	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	036	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	211	Info in main headings field	constitut. code
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	11135
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