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1823 June 9
Constitut. Code

Of misrule, the sensible evil effects in all shapes is a ridicule
to one or other of two denominations – oppression and
depredation and oppression.

They may even be comprehended under the single
name of oppression: the exercise of depredation in so far as committed
by the hands of rulers being but a particular modification
of oppression exercised by the hands of those same rulers:
oppression exercised for this particular purpose: exerc
applied to the purpose of obtaining benefit in some shape the matter of good
in some shape at the expence of the person on whom
the oppression is exercised.

But oppression may be exercised in cases where
no particu benefit in any shape is the object of the attainment
of which is the final cause of the oppression exercised,
no benefit in any shape unless the pleasure
resulting from the contemplation of the suffering produced by
the oppression in on the part breast of the oppressed person be regarded
as causing under the denomination of benefit.

But though in this way the cause of the evil may in all
its shapes be compensable under this the one denomination of
of oppression there will be a convenience in the employing
of the denomination namely depredation likewise,
and their considering it as something distant and different
from oppression at large. For as in the two cases the
evil effects on the part of the sufferers are different so are
the mix if operation on the part part of the actors agents different.

The giving support and strength to the power of depredation
is the chief purpose to which the exercise of power which
in its immediate effects is purely oppressive is principally directed.

When for example individuals who are suffering under the privations
evidenced by the depredation exercised at their expence, make communication of their
sufferings of it or the cause
to which they ascribe those
sufferings or of the displeasure
with which as being the
victims of those sufferings
are regarded by them,
and for the making of such
communication to this effect, suffering pain under the name of punishment or under any other name is inflicted on them, but nothing in the shape of money or anything else from the use of
which the rulers would derive pleasure in any shape is taken from them, here oppression is indeed exercised on them: but it cannot be said there is this particular instance, depredation is exercised⊞
⊞ upon them: at the same time
but for the depredation, the oppression
would not have been exercised.

Identifier: | JB/036/276/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 36.
Date_1	1823-06-09	Marginal Summary Numbering	8-12
Box	036	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	276	Info in main headings field	constitut. code
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c2
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	11200
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