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1823. May 22
Constitut. Code.

Excludes reason for Non-Age.
Those who The the more apt to be intent to pay with money, power – with money and
power reputation, call money power and reputation the consciousness of producing happiness
on the most enlarged scale.

Question. Why vest place locate the supreme operative power authority in the hands
of a body the members of which are located by the members aggregate
body of the members of the community saving exceptions, rather than and not
in a single individual, located by chance, under the condition
of his being born and bred in a palace, with the expectation of a
throne: that is to say of all the power which, by their obedience
that body is, the whole of it that whole body are capable of creating?

Answer. Reasons.

1. In the body to which the power is here allotted located by the nature of man is the
maximum of the aggregate of appropriate aptitude taken in the aggregate.

2. In the individual, described as above is by the same unchangeable
cause located the minimum of the aggregate of appropriate
aptitude: say rather, the maximum of that inaptitude
which stands opposite to the maximum is the opposite of the aggregate
of appropriate aptitude taken in the aggregate.

I. First then in the body in which the power in question is
here located is the aggre maximum of appropriate aptitude taken
in the aggregate.

1. First as to appropriate moral aptitude. Of In the breast of the individual in question Appropriate
aptitude is high in degree, in proportion as the as the strength of
the desire to contribute in the highest degree to the greatest happiness
of the greatest number.

In every member of the universal body in question, the strength
of this desire is at its maximum.

Identifier: | JB/037/137/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 37.
Date_1	1823-05-22	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-3
Box	037	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	137	Info in main headings field	constitut. code
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1822
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1822
Notes public		ID Number	11352
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