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1823. May 24
Constitut. Code

As the ruling functionary for the time being is by his
power enabled and thence on every each occasion disposed to
sacrifice to his own felicity all other felicities that came in
competition with it such will accordingly be the disposition
and on each occasion the desire of the functionary in
expectancy: such his desire and the means of gratifying
that desire to an unlimited extent being also in his hands
such on each occasion will be his conduct.

In the condition of a subject even individu in the breast
of every individual the self-preferring principle feels restraint
imposed upon it feels it restrained in its endeavour to pr
effect the sinister sacrifice – feels its course of sinister gratification itself kept within bounds not
only by a sense legal but by a sense moral obligation: not only by the power
of the laws, but by the power of the Public Opinion Tribunal of which further
on.

But in the situation of Monarch – the single, ruling functionary
feels himself exempt from the betaking contract not only of the
political sanction but from the contract of the popular or
moral sanction having for its judicial Executive the Public
Opinion Tribunal. From that of the political sanction altogether,
namely in virtue of the irresponsible situation in which he is placed by law,
from that the terms of the popular or moral sanction from the jurisdiction
of the Public Opinion Tribunal, in great measure; namely
by means of the influence which his situation gives him
on the Bad judgments pronounced by that same unofficial
judicatory: to him it belongs, on each occasion to make
whatsoever motions in that body motions to whatsoever effect
or test most conformable to his own desires – to his own interests
momentary and permanent according to the view he takes of them,
to him it belongs to make those motions in whatever number
his innate love of case permitts: and when in and from that a situation
so influential a motion to any effect purport is made, being be it in its
tendency ever so mischievous, hope to second it and others in unlimited
number to give support
to it and carry it
into effect never can be wanting.

Identifier: | JB/037/154/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 37.
Date_1	1823-05-24	Marginal Summary Numbering	5-9
Box	037	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	154	Info in main headings field	constitut. code
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c2
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	11369
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