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1821 April 28 First Lines Constitutional
Distributive

In so far as it matches with, and is determined by, the
state of the Constitutional branch of the law, the state of the distributive remunerative
branch of law, as applied to benefits, will, under the different
forms of Government present wear the different aspects complexions following.

The state of the [distributive branch of Law as applied to benefits]
exercises an influence on the state and the results of the Constitution
branch of Law in manner following.

The matter of opulence is the matter of corruption: in it
is contained a large proportion of the matter of delusion: of the stock
of instruments applicable and applying themselves to the production
of delusion.

A man who feels in his hands a certain portion of the
matter of opulence, especially favoured by situation in other respects,
has in his hands inducements for seeking to acquire, in such
proportions as his individual taste prescribes and the state of the
Government under which he lives places within his reach, in the
greatest attainable quantities, continual additions to whatsoever
stock he has already in his hands of the several external instruments
of felicity — opulence, power, and factitious dignity.
For the obtainment of these several objects of general desire, he acts
under the continual temptation of employing this stock of the
matter of opulence in the character of matter of corruption:
by applying it to the sensitive faculties of the several possessors of
political power in those several shapes in which, by the exercise
of that power in his favour, the several objects of his [abovementioned]
naturally insatiable concupiscence: applying itself to those several
faculties in such sort as, by its corruptive influence on them,
to produce a correspondent and requisite exhibition of corrupt obsequiousness.

Identifier: | JB/037/055/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 37.
Date_1	1821-04-28	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	037	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	055	Info in main headings field	first lines
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks	c wilmott 1819
Marginals		Paper Producer	andreas louriottis
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public		ID Number	11270
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