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1823 June 9
Constitut. Code

In every government which in so far has for its object and
effect the pursuit maximization of the happiness of the governors at the expence
and by the correspondent sacrifice of the happiness of the
governed of that is to say of the greatest number, oppression
at large and depredation and oppression at large
will be the habitual and unintermitted practice of the
government in all its situations and stages ranks.

The only form species of government which has or contains for its
object and effect the greatest happiness of the greatest number
is a democracy.

The only species of democracy which can have
place in a community numerous enough to defend itself
against aggregation aggression at the hands of external adversaries
is a representative democracy.+

A representative democracy has for its characteristic object and
effect the defending securing against the oppression and depredation at injury from the hands of
those functionaries, which it employs for its defence against
oppression and depredation at the hands of foreign adversaries
and against such internal adversaries as are not functionaries.

Every other species of government has necessarily for
its characteristic or primary object and effect the keeping the people, the non functionaries in a
state of defenceless perpetual defenceless against the functionaries
their rulers who being in respect in respect of this power
and the use they are disposed and enabled empowered to make of it
the natural adversaries of the people, the giving facility
certainty, unbounded extent, and impunity to the depredation
and oppression exercised on the governed by the governors.

Identifier: | JB/036/277/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 36.
Date_1	1823-06-09	Marginal Summary Numbering	13, 12-14
Box	036	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	277	Info in main headings field	constitut. code
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
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Notes public		ID Number	11201
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