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1823. July 1
Constitut. Code.III Rationale
Ch. 5. Constitutive
§. 1. [Constitutive in the people, why]

Question. By what consideration can it be made appear
that with relation to as to the production of the effect in question, the people
possess appropriate moral aptitude in a comparative sense.

Answer. If with reference to the end in question they do not possess this same appropriate
moral aptitude in a comparative sense, then with reference to that
same end there exist some person or persons by who it is
possessed in a degree superior to that in which it is possessed
by the people. Such other person or persons will be either one or
more: and in each case they will be either members of be persons belonging
some foreign state or some persons belonging to the state here
in question. 1. Suppose it a single person and he belonging
not to the state in question but a foreign state. Then if so it
be that in comparison with him the people do not possess
the branch of appropriate aptitude it will then so be the case will be that
in the breast of this stranger one foreigner – say of the foreign Monarch the desire of seeing produced
the greatest happiness of the greatest number of the people in the state in
question is greater than in the breasts of those same people
themselves: and so in the case of the one or the few belonging
in both cases to the state in question. Hence we have three
positions differing little from one another is manifest absurdity.

1. A foreign Monarch be all as such being a stranger
desire to see the greatest number of the people of this state possessed
of the maximum of happiness, than they themselves will have.

2. A Monarch ruling as such over the people of
this state will as such have a stronger desire to see the
greatest number of the people of this state possessed of the
maximum of happiness than they themselves will have.

3. A set of men more or less numerous, constituting composing
an Aristocratic body, f small at any rate in comparison
of the greatest number of the people of this state will have a
stronger desire to see the people of this state possessed of the maximum
of happiness than they themselves will have.

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Date_1	1823-07-01	Marginal Summary Numbering	13-16
Box	037	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	180	Info in main headings field	constitut. code
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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	richard doane	Paper Produced in Year	1822
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