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1823. April 26
Constitut. Code

§. 3. Obstacles – Rulers particular sinister interest – its ends

1. Opposite to the universal interest is every ruler's
particu

1. To every member of Be the community what it
may, to every member of it belong two opposite and continually
conflicting interests: 1. his share in the universal
interest – that interest which is common to himself and
every other member of the community, 2. that interest which
is particular and peculiar to himself, with or without some
comparatively small number of associates.

In the ordinate state of things, of a man's particular
interest the value will commonly generally in his eyes at least more valu be greater in
will be the value will be than that of his share of the universal interest: only in
times of great extraordinary public danger will the value
of is social interest predominate have the ascendant in his breast: hence the effect
in so far as between the two interests a competition has
place, the social will give way yield to and be made a
sacrifice to the self-regarding interest.

Proportioned to the magnitude of his power of his
share in the aggregate of power, will be the facility with
which a ruler be enabled to make sacrifice of the less
valuable influential the social interest to the more influential and predominant interest.

In every community the only right and proper end
of government – the only and end which in the conduct
of the business of government a functionary sharing having a share
in the power of it ought to pursue is the greatest happiness
of th all the several members of the community as above
of the greatest number of them as the case may be.

Identifier: | JB/036/235/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 36.
Date_1	1823-04-26	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-4
Box	036	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	235	Info in main headings field	constitut. code
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Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
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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	11159
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