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1823 June 29
Constitut. CodeIII Rationale
Ch. 5 Constitutive
☞ Short Sentence form
9. In the breast of a public functionary the degree Appropriate moral aptitude is at its maximum when in
that same functionary the desire of seeing the greatest possible felicity
possessed in the greatest possible number of the individuals in question is at
9. Of themselves the people possess as above, designated
its maximum: in the people as above designated (Ch. 3)
is the maximum of appropriate moral aptitude.
10. In the Appropriate moral aptitude is either appropriate
knowledge or appropriate judgment. In the said people, by
men that is say, in their agents acting by their Agents, adequate appropriate knowledge is
at its maximum will naturally have place.
11. So the people, they by their of the
adequate
11. So appropriate intellectual judgment.
12. So, appropriate active aptitude.
13. Only in so far as it is under the direction of appropriate
moral aptitude, is appropriate knowledge contributory
to the aggregate of appropriate aptitude. If under
the direction of that inaptitude which is the opposite of appropriate
moral aptitude, appropriate knowledge is detrimental
to the aggregate of appropriate aptitude.
14. So likewise is appropriate judgment.
15. So likewise is appropriate active aptitude.
16. In the case breasts of the Agents of the people,
whatever appropriate knowledge has place will be under
the direction of appropriate moral aptitude.
17. So, appropriate judgment.
18. So, appropriate active aptitude.
19. On the part of the people Wha As In regard to intellectual aptitude, whatever
intellectual deficiency in intellectual aptitude would have had place on
the part of the people will be supplied by their elected Agents in the legislature.
20. In the breasts case of the a Monarch and his Agents, moral aptitude being
effectually and completely wanting, whatsoever intellectual or active
aptitude has place will be employed in the endeavour to give increase of his
greatest happiness, to the diminution of that of the people.
21. So in the case of an Aristocracy.
22. In the case a Monarchy Sub-functionaries – his Agents of all classes and at
grades will be necessarily deficient in appropriate aptitude in all its shapes, in
comparison of those of the people in a democracy: cause of this inferiority, ⊞
⊞ of the people's Agents universal and constant
exposure to the superintending scrutinizing,
and informing
tongues of the Public Opinion Tribunal
of the Monarch's do exposure.
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