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1823. May 22
Constitut. Code.

4. Lastly as to Equality. As the less the inequality is, which has
place in the distribution made of the stock of external instruments of felicity
in a community, the greater is the aggregate quantity of felicity itself
and in particular in the breasts of those lower classes of whom the greater
number of the members of the community is composed, thus it is
that of each individual of this greater number it is the preponderant
interest that in the community in question of which he is a member, in the
division and distribution which has place made of the stock of
external instruments of felicity the degree of inequality be minimized.

But moreover, as in that same shape inequality
receives encrease, encrease is at the same time received by the
power of that class of men who by whom with reference to the greater number
as above is occupied the situation of internal unless under one particular form of government and irresistible enemies.

Thus it is that of every member individual of the majority greater number
of the members of the community it is generally speaking the preponderant interest
that the greatest happiness of the greatest number should be at
its maximum, and that for by that greater number security should
have place and be possessed – possessed not only as against external
and the comparatively important division of the internal class, but also as against
the powerful and generally speaking irresistible division of that
same class of enemies.

Hence it is appears in the first place that it is in the hands instance situation
of the proposed possessors of the supreme constitutive authority namely
of all the members of the political in question, or at any rate and next to them of
all those whose interests are least at variance with theirs the
supreme constitutive authority be placed, and rather than that it should not in the hands
of Chance limited in the exercise of such his power to of location to the
class of persons above described, namely those who from the cradle
have been trained each of them in the expectation of seeing and correspondent desire of
seeing the happiness of all the other members of the community made in each
occasion a sacrifice to his their
own personal individual set

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Date_1	1823-05-22	Marginal Summary Numbering	13-16
Box	037	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	141	Info in main headings field	constitut. code
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Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
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