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

To render this objection valid Further objection to act with
any weight, it would be necessary to this be either that
blind chance as determined in its operation by birth and
parentage prosecute a greater probability of effecting bringing about
becoming productive of a greater quantity of happiness to the
greatest number than the aggregate of the wills of the greatest
number as above, or that the will of a single individual
or the aggregate of the wills of a small number of individuals
presents a greater postulation of that same derivative
result. But in regard to blind chance, this it has been
shewn see already this is not the case.

As little is it in regard to the wills of a small number
of is more particularly the will of a single person
a Monarch. For where the power is as above lodged in
the hands of all, each as with regard to that which class
of acts by which if prosecuted has an individual happiness
valid to prosecute at the expense of all, find opponents in
all, and opponents whose power of opposition is equal to
his own: but in the case of a Monarch that class no
effectual opposition is or can be experienced anywhere by that
class of his acts whereby his own individual happiness is
promoted or endeavoured to be promoted at the expence and
by the sacrifice of that of all others. Take for example that
class of the acts whereby to the encrease augmentation real or supposed of his
own happiness he deprives all others of a portion of their means
or instruments of happiness to the an amount equal to
that which suffices for the maintenance of him, twenty fifty or
a hundred thousand of those members of the community by which
the instruments of subsistence, abundance and security are afforded
to themselves and all the others.

Identifier: | JB/037/113/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 37.
Date_1	1823-03-09	Marginal Summary Numbering	13 or 3
Box	037	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	113	Info in main headings field	constitut. code iii reason-giving part
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d7 / e7
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	11328
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