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1823. June 15

III Rationale.
Ch. 2
Object of this Code Constitution

[ ] [1] [Greatest number] Question 1. Why mention as the object
of this Code the greater more greatest happiness of the greatest number only:
not the greatest happiness of all?

[ ] [Greatest number] Question. Why the hap of the greatest
number only why not of all without exception as the happiness
of the object of this Code.

Answer. Reason. Only because to take for its object
the greatest happiness of all without exception is not possible.
The object is – in proportion to the quantity of the population, that
is to say the sum total number of the members of the community to
produce, in so far as depends on government, in the account of happiness and unhappiness the greatest net
amount of happiness. But some there will always be so
circumstanced, that if their greatest happiness were in the endeavour
to give to each the greatest happiness of which his end he
is susceptible they were included, the net aggregate amount of happiness
would be diminished. In this case for example are all
evildoers who in whom for the deterring of others it is deemed
necessary to inflict in the name of punishment suffering in greater
quantity than would be inflicted, if nothing beyond no object has other than their own
reformation were in view endeavoured at. For illustration, without entering further
into details, this plification may be .

As it is no other By no system of arrangements but such
as substract from the greatest happiness of some, could can any
endeavours be employed for adding to the greatest happiness
of all!⊞1 ⊞1 In in particular, wherever where
for the prevention of
evil-doing in any shape,
punishment is ordained
to be applied to the evildoers:
punishment to wit to any
greater amount, than
would be employed were
their own reformation
the only object in aimed
at. So, as often as
any question is carried
by a majority of votes
it what can not but happen
is, that by the same
cause by which the
happiness of that majority
is increased, that
of the minority shall have been proportionately
diminished. To Instead of the words greatest number By substituting to employing the word all in preference to the words
all, greatest number, no practical benefit could therefore have been produced.
Whereas Bu, by employing the words greatest number in preference
to the word all, this practical benefit is produced: namely
the putting, of upon their guard, all persons concerned, upon their guard against
the practice of sacrificing to the happiness of the smallest number the
happiness of that all but that same smaller number: to the happiness,
real or imaginary, of the few or even the one, the real happiness of all but
those few or that one: as
the few or the one: a
a sacrifice, which will be
sure to be made, in every
State, but those in which
the effective sovereignty is not in
the hands of the greater
number, or in the hands
of those, between whose
interests and those of the greatest number there is no variance.

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Date_1	1823-06-15	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	037	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	106	Info in main headings field	constitut. code
Image	001	Titles	iii rationale / ch. 2 / object of the constitution
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1822
Marginals		Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1822
Notes public		ID Number	11321
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