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1823. April 28
Constitut. Code

Of the matter of corruption the Monarch may be distinguished
into immediate and the unimmediate the immediately operating applying and the unimmediately operating applying. By those
immediate which are immediately applying understand those which are themselves among the
objects of general desire, or as above to which masses lots of those same objects
are as above attached: by the unintermediate those which the application of which is unimmediate, those in which the those
which are immediate objects have their source.

Of the intermed those which are unimmediate the
most fruitful by far are 1 wars and 2 distant dependencies.
Wars and distant dependencies beget offices: offices corrupt obsequiousness
obsequiousness: as the corrupt obsequiousness on the part of all Monarchies all who seek them, as towards all who give them.

Wars are alike employable in every situation Monarchy.
Distant dependences are peculiar to those which are in possession
of a quantity more or less considerable of maritime naval force.

Wars also as in the latter case, situation is favorable, these These sources of corruption of corruptive influence are
reciprocally productive of each other. War Never can war
have take place but the quantity of the matter of corruption must
encrease: War makes Successful or unsuccessful
this is of among the number of the effects of it. Be it ever so unsuccessful
it makes addition to the number of offices: of military
offices obviously: and to in the train of military offices come civil ones.
So to as far as credit has place, it adds to the quantity of public
debt, and of the taxes imposed for payment of the principal
of it. Taxes require offices for the extraction of them, deb public
debt requires offices for the payment of it. In a country Monarchy possessing
distant dependences, if a war in which it is engaged proves
successful an addition to the extent or number of those
dependencies is a natural and frequent consequence of the
success. But to every other such government each such dependancy is an object of envy
and money all together a bone of contention, hence it is that
as war begets distant dependencies so do distant dependencies
beget war.

Identifier: | JB/036/250/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 36.
Date_1	1823-04-28	Marginal Summary Numbering	or 40, 41-43
Box	036	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	250	Info in main headings field	constitut. code
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e10
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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