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1823. July 1
Constitut. CodeIII Rationale
Ch. 5. Constitutive
§. 1. [Constitutive in the people – why]

Ch. 3. Sovereignty II Expositive [Sovereignty] that is to say the
Constitutive power. See Ch. 5. Constitutive. §. 1 its [People] that is
to say all the inhabitants of the territory of the State, with the
exception of certain classes. See Ch. 5. Constitutive §. 1 and Election
Code Ch. § .

Ch. 5. Constitutive. III Rationale. Question. The Constitutive
why in the people? Answer. Because by establishing this power
applying it to all official situations, and locating the entire of it and locating it entire in the hands of the people, a pure representative
democracy is instituted: and this is the only
form of government which and this alone can have the greatest happiness
of the greatest number for its effect.

Question. By what consideration can it be made
appear that this form of government and no other can
be productive of this effect?

Answer. Because for the exercise of those his
connected functions namely the location and the dislocation
in relation to all the several other functions by the
exercise of which government is carried on the people
are naturally endowed with possessed of the requisite
degree of appropriate aptitude, absolute and comparative
absolute, namely with reference to the end in view simply, namely
the production ; the greatest happiness of the greatest
numbers; comparative, namely with reference to every
imaginable authority, authority – that is to say person of set
of persons in whom whose hands it is possible to lodge those several functions
capable of being lodged.

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Date_1	1823-07-01	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-2
Box	037	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	175	Info in main headings field	constitut. code
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1 / d1 / e1
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	11390
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