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1822 July 4
Constitut. Code

Art. The Supreme Constitutive power is in the great body
of the People

§. How is it that if self-preference while
§ Self-preference – how why while in a Monarchy Monarch its effects
are preponderantly evil detrimental: are in a representative democracy
preponderantly contributory to the greatest happiness of the greatest
number.

Whatever be the form of government, a man will prefer his
own happiness felicity to that of all others put together: his wish and
upon occasion his endeavour will be got into his own hands
all the several external instruments of felicity in the greatest quantity
possible. For this purpose his wish and upon occasion
his endeavour will be to exercise at the expence of all others
to committ depredation to the greatest extent possible. But
upon every occasion that presents itself as favorable, this depredation
will at the hands of all those at whose expence it is exercised
produce the endeavour to escape from it – in a word, self-preservation
from it, and to that end, in so far as it seems
consistent with personal safety, resistance. But by even by
such endeavours at evasion much more by resistance on one the
part, anger will be produced on the other thereupon partly
for securing the faculty of exercising the depredation, partly for the
gratification of the passion of anger, oppression will be added
and by whatever causes it is produced in any the slightest
degree the disposition and the habit of exercising it in the greatest
degree which circumstances admitt of will be continually on the
encrease. The Monarch To These In the situation of the Monarch
so long as he continues in that situation – the Monarch, by the
joint powers of his incorporeal instruments of misrule force, intimidation, corruption and delusion finds
supply a man with corporeal instruments, sufficient to enable him to afford gratify to those
desires the requisite correspondent the gratification sought by him: and thus it is that the power became added
to the desire the correspondent effect is produced. The in this case power evil one,
the the unquestionable sacrifice of the real felicity of the greatest number of 4
million to the questionable felicity of this one.

Identifier: | JB/037/071/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 37.
Date_1	1822-07-04	Marginal Summary Numbering	1
Box	037	Main Headings	constitutional code rationale
Folio number	071	Info in main headings field	constitut. code rationale
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	b1 / c1 / e1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman 1819
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	john flowerdew colls
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public		ID Number	11286
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