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1823. April 18
Constitut. Code

Nor yet is there any thing evil which without any change
in the Constitution might not remain, and beyond doubt is destined
sooner or later to receive an easy cure – while to the evils resulting from
all the Constitutions of all other States are no cure are by impossibility
be effected by any other means than the abrogation of their constitution – and
substituting then a Con the
sort of Constitution of
which it is in the characteristic
to have for its fundamental principle the omnipotence
of the many for as above.

At the same time, man being the same everywhere,
not less universally exemplified is the principle of self-preference
in that thus in every other political state form of government. But where the
government is in the hands of all or what comes to the
same thing of those whose collective interests are the same with
the interests of all, the natural effect of the principle of self-preference
is – not as in the case where it is in the hands
of one or of a few the sacrifice of the interest of all but
that one o those few to the interest of that one or those few
but the sacrifice of all interests that are opposite opposed to the interests happiness
of all to all interests that are promotion of it. In so far
as his aim is to sacrifice all interests to his own, the interests of others to that which is peculiar to himself, and hostile to theirs, no man
finds any effective number of hands disposed to join with
his: in so far as his aim is to promote serve advance those intere such of
his interests alone as are common to him with theirs as
well as his, he finds all hands disposed to join with his,
and those common interests correspond to the immediately subordinate
right and proper ends of government – maximization
of subsistence, abundance, security and equality. In so far
as by the principle of self preference he is led to augment promote
his own happiness either in conjunction with that of others by augmenting theirs at the same time, or
even without diminishing it, so far he finds himself capable
of acting without obstruction: so far as but no sooner does
he attempt to promote his own happiness by means by
which theirs are diminished, then he finds obstructions
thrown in his way by all by whom it is whose happiness or by this his enterprize already more
less diminished and by all who in case of his success
the apprehension of suffering the like diminution is entertained.
Here then Thus the principle of self preference has in the breast of each
the self principle of self preference has for its regulator the
consciousness knowledge of the existence and power of the same principle in the breasts
of all the rest: and thus it is that the whole mechanism is
at all times keep kept in a state of perfect order, and at all
times performs to admiration everything that is desired of it, everything
it ever made for, everything that was is desired of it.

Identifier: | JB/036/232/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 36.
Date_1	1823-04-18	Marginal Summary Numbering	5-7
Box	036	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	232	Info in main headings field	constitut. code
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d13 / e2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1822
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1822
Notes public		ID Number	11156
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