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1823. March 9
Constitut. Code. III. Reason-giving part

True it is that to a certain degree the between the interest
of the Monarch and the interest of the rest of the community there
will always have place a certain connection: and this in such sort that
the greatest happiness of the Monarch will be dependent on the
existence of a certain portion of happiness on the part of the rest of the community:
true it is likewise that of this same connection and
dependance a certain perception on the part of the Monarch will
always have place: and that the greater the appropriate aptitude
of the Monarch is in respect of appropriate intellectual aptitude
i.e. appropriate knowledge and judgment, the greater is the quantity degree
of happiness which he will be disposed and content to allow the
existence of on the part of those his subjects. True it moreover
is that by a certain degree of deficiency in respect of knowledge,
judgment and active aptitude the effect produced diminution
produced in the quantity of happiness possessed by those his
subjects may be greater than it would be produced by any
extraordinary amplitude in regard to those same elements of
appropriate aptitude as above. Accordingly by an
a transcendently ignorant, foolish, unskilful and or indolent
and negligent Monarch still more evil may be and will
produced than by a one who is in a transcendent degree knowing, judicious,
skilful and active. Witness Spain under the Bourbons
as compared with France under the preceding Bourbons,
and Prussia under Frederic the Great.

But in the situation of Monarch instea so far
from any extraordinary amplitude, extraordinary deficiency in
the several articles of knowledge judgment skill and activity is
more naturally natural and has accordingly been more frequently exemplified
than any extraordinary amplitude, exemplified
in such sort and in such frequency that the ratio of the number of persons
afflicted with habouring ends mental derangement in such sort as to be universally
recognized to be compleatly for the management even of their own personal
affairs with reference to their own personal happiness is on the part of persons
so situated occupying
that most elevated situation
in human society,
beyond in a most prodigious
degree greater
than in the case of all
the whole number of the
Members of any independent
political community taken together in the aggregate. See Table Note in Appendix – Insanity Table.

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Date_1	1823-03-09	Marginal Summary Numbering	8-10
Box	037	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	110	Info in main headings field	constitut. code iii reason-giving part
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