JB/037/163/001

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1823. June 5
Constitut. Code

5. By a benefit already received, and without hope
of any other, dependence obsequiousness as effectually corruptive corrupt may
be created as by corruptive dependence hope. The sinisterestly
directed power force of the Public Opinion Tribunal is in this
case the power by which the corruptive obsequiousness
is produced. Ingratitude and perfidy are in that
case the words of condemnation, by which the punitive
power of the Public Opinion Tribunal is applied to
the thus created offence: ingratitude in not making
a correspondent return for the benefit received: perfidy
by in the violation of a contract which though not
expressed in words was not the less clearly expressed by
other signs.

6. In this case as in some others the direction given to the The force of the Public Tribunal is divided
against itself: exposed to two opposite impulses: a
right and proper tutelary impulse and a sinister impulse. Of the two
the sinister impulse number of individuals whose
judgment obeys is determined by the sinister impulse is in the present
state of society incomparably greater than the number
of those whose judgment is determined by the right
and proper impulse. For, the occasions on which
the exercise of the virtues of gratitude and fidelity to
contracts engagements contracts and the abstinence from the opposite vices of ingratitude and perfidy are called for are happening to every individual
every moment of his life: whereas, on the other hand of the occasions
on which a any man is called for to exercise the
virtue of an incorruptibility, as towards one of the against the corruptive power influence
in the hands of the possessors of the supreme power in the State are the
number is limited and in comparison extremely small,
and moreover of the persons to whom those occasions happen is also small in comparison
of that of the all the inhabitants of the State members of the political community, whatever it be.

Identifier: | JB/037/163/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 37.
Date_1	1823-06-05	Marginal Summary Numbering	6, 6a
Box	037	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	163	Info in main headings field	constitut. code
Image	001	Titles	note
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c2 / e2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	11378
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