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

Objection on the score of appropriate intellectual aptitude ends
to the claim of this same description of persons.

How low so ever may be the justly estimated quantity degree
of appropriate aptitude on the part of a Monarch as
such, the quantity of it respectively possessed by the great majority of
the whole number of the members of the community in question
can not reasonably be supposed not to fall equally short
of it: adding all those deficiencies or negative quantities together
the result will therefore be an aggregate a degree of relative intellectual
aptitude on the part of such a majority as that in question
much greater than can reasonably be presumed to have place
on the part case of a Monarch taken upon the averages.

Answer – taken from the consideration of the human nature nature of
mankind considered in a general point of view. Any deficiency
in the article of appropriate intellectual aptitude whether appropriate
knowledge or appropriate and judgment be considered
will not be productive of any effect detrimental to the aggregate
stock of happiness any further than on the occasion in question it is actually
productive of a the decree in favour of a delegate
actually and proportionably deficient in respect of one
branch or another of appropriate aptitude. This it
might be if in the vote he gives a member of the supreme
constitutive body who is a of his own want of aptitude
in respect of appropriate knowledge and judgment were
in general disposed and apt to act for himself without regard
to the knowledge and judgment of others. But the reverse
of this is the case truth and may universally be seen to be so+ + See Bentham Parliamentary Reform Catechism: those
who are of deficiency in this article respect have are very generally
and almost universally in the habit of be relying
on the judgment as influenced by the knowledge, those him in
whose instance they are each one by his own observation, or by report
of others of whose appropriate aptitude has been entertains a favorable opinion has been induced to
regard a greater degree of
relative and appropriate aptitude to have place than on the part instance of any other person individual on whose instance behalf any probability of his being seated in the situation in question has place.

Identifier: | JB/037/114/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 37.
Date_1	1823-03-09	Marginal Summary Numbering	13 or 3 - 14 or 4
Box	037	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	114	Info in main headings field	constitut. code iii reason-giving part
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