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1823. April 29
Constitut. Code

It enjoys to a prodigious degree an exemption from the
controuling power of the Pubic Opinion Tribunal: that power
to which in the to the operation of which the exercise of coercive
power is in a much greater degree inflicted. For,

1. As for the production of any corruptive effect it aims at, no
act on the part of the Corruptor General is necessary. Therefore
there is thus far no act is there to which in the way of disapprobation
can attach itself.

This unofficial judicatory is not less scarcely subject to his
corruptive influence than the official judicatories. Nothing can
he ever do or abstaining from doing. No course on any occasion
can his action active faculty take, but praise laudation and admiration
follow it and attach upon it: Land is bestowed upon him
for every thing he finds with for every thing he keeps
– his own hand especially of which can scarcely fail to happen – if, and so
far as others are let in to a participation of the benefit
of it: Not an article instance of gratification can concern or use though it be for his own
personal gratification but from various quarters follows
him for what is done. In the first place comes those who
derive to themselves a profit from the supplying him with it, or expect hope to do
so for similar article. He is To act then is to confer
a benefit on land, and in the pleasure of conferring this public
benefit, he finds his only motive. By the same every such act he
moreover adds to the splendor and lustre of the crown and
the throne: and by all arises in their eyes cried to whom the constitution is an
object of attachment the necessity of this splendor and this
lustre is a fundamental and unquestionable article.


Identifier: | JB/036/256/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 36.

Date_1

1823-04-29

Marginal Summary Numbering

56-57

Box

036

Main Headings

constitutional code

Folio number

256

Info in main headings field

constitut. code

Image

001

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

c1 / e16

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

11180

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