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1823. March 29
Constitut. Code

§. Better admitt Democracy in its rawest state than trust to Mixt Monarchy –

Objection. In many countries, for want of a Public Opinion Tribunal
the people would not be ripe for receiving a Representative
Democratical Constitution: they would be incapable of playing their
part in it. In such a state of things, a Mixt Monarchy
with or without two Houses, is the only recourse for training them.
By Of this every difference an appeal more or less explicit to the
people would be among the results.

Answer. How small so ever be the were the claims of
success in the case of a Democracy, in such a state of things as
the above it would be much less. Howsoever they might
disagree one with another, much soever at all times would they come to
an agreement for the a division of the power or rule i.e. for the carrying
on the business in a close partnership, as in England thus
consent either if there be any the least particle of power to remain
or be any larger than they could not help it, in the
hands of the people. It In the pursuit of its common interests
every body of men is immutable: it is governed altogether
by its interest – in the narrowest and most selfish sense of
the word interest, never by any regard for the interest of
the people: in that position, none of the inducements any one
of which may suffice to cause a tough man to under sacrifice of
his private personal interest to the universal interest can have
place: love of reputation, pleasure of sympathy for the
people, pleasure of power in respect of the secret consciousness
of having had so large a share in contributing to the
happiness of the people. Yet perhaps for a minute moment and
in excitation produced by a fine paid: but for any thing of a
continuance, never does is any body of mennow determined by
any other inducement than of its conception of what is in the
highest design is
beneficial to its purely
self-regarding interests.

Identifier: | JB/037/151/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 37.
Date_1	1823-03-29	Marginal Summary Numbering	11 or 1 - 13 or 3
Box	037	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	151	Info in main headings field	constitut. code iii reason-giving part
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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	11366
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