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

In the instance of each persons happiness – felicity – at
such moment of time the quantity of it will depend partly upon
the state of the his internal instruments of felicity, partly upon the
state of the external instruments of felicity. By internal instruments
of felicity understand those in of the state of which the
state condition of his person body and mind together, is composed: strength
of body strength of mind, health of body health of mind, and
so forth. By external instruments of felicity, understand
in the case of a private individual – a non-functionary, the
matter of wealth in all its shapes – and the matter of domestic
power in all its shapes, add added is to men in the case
of a public functionary, and in particular in the case
of a Monarch, power in its all its several political shapes, factitious
dignity, ease at the expence of official duty, and vengeance
at the expence of justice. These may be stiled the
sweets of rule.

By good rule, understand rule exercised with
effect in pursuance of the desire to see the greatest number
in possession of the maximum of happiness: it the rule is
good in proportion as that object is accomplished.

By bad rule or say misrule, understand rule
exercised in pursuance of the desire to see the on the part
of the ruler or rulers to see their own feel themselves in possession of the
the maximum of happiness: namely at the expence and
by the sacrifice of whatsoever appears to themselves the requisite
portion of the greatest number's happiness.

The state of the a Monarch's a man's internal instruments of felicity
being given, his felicity will be, or what in his practice comes to the same thing at any rate will in
his eyes appear to be, as the quantity and value of
the aggregate of the external instruments of felicity in his
possession, is at his command.

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Date_1	1823-07-01	Marginal Summary Numbering	21-24
Box	037	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	182	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		Paper Produced in Year	1822
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