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1823. March 9
Constitut. Code. III. Reason-giving
The result is that the desire to see the Supreme Operative
power legislative and executive included in the hands of a Monarch
rather than in the hands of all the a set of functionaries chosen
by all the members of the community in question in conjunction
or by those acting under the guidance of the one same interest, is
to choose to be governed be at the disposal⊞1 ⊞1 probably by of a
and at the very best
by of a man who to the
full power is seen to
add the desire of sacrificing
to the full extent
of the competition
on every occasion of
competition to his
own individual happiness
or expected happiness
the universal
happiness of all the
members of the political community
in and over
which he acts, of a medium
in preference to the being at the governed by an in the manner
that now are governed in the Anglo American United States each
one by a set of men the location of which he contributes
in a degree equal to that in which any other member of that
same community contributes, all of them having in respect
of the universally acknowledged efficient cause of happiness
namely Subsistence, Abundance, Security in all its branches
and Equality in so far as that with the possession of this
other efficient cause of happiness the race interest with
.
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