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1823. July 4
Constitut. Code.III Rationale
Ch. 5. Constitutive
§. 1. [Constitutive in the people, why]

Standing army. The best king overtaxes his subjects
His interest demands it as the bad husband his castle
otherwise rejects it
So distant dependencies of course.

The felicity and of people
for kindness from him
produces unbounded gratitude.

3. Altogether groundless and untenable is the notion of any such
community unity of interests. Between individual and individual in a democracy, yes everywhere: between Monarch and subjects in a Monarchy, nowhere: everywhere instead
of unity oppositeness repugnancy – and that oppositeness irreconciliable essentially irremovable.

1. Money for subsistence. Consider how the matter stands in the first place
in regard First as to money: to the people the matter of subsistence and abundance.

That in a quantity sufficient to subsistence there should be the matter of subsistence in the hands of
all is the interest of all the people. So is it that the interest of the Monarch
for man neither for himself nor for the monarch can not work unless he live: and of who those who work
for themselves or for him the more there are that also live the more there
are who are capable of being put to work made to work for him.

2. Money in and for abundance. That, in the hands of
all, the matter of which the exterior instruments of felicity in their several
shapes is composed should exist in the greatest abundance possible
is the interest of all is the interest of the people. So is it that of
the Monarch: for the more the greater the quantity of that which comes
into their hands the greater the quantity that can be extorted
out of him for his use. Thus far the unity has place. But
now comes the opposition. Only in so far as by from abundance in
the hands of his subjects, abundance in his hands receives increase
does this community of interest between him and them have place.
For any the the In respect of regard to them his interest is that to an
unlimited amount their share shall suffer decrease, so long as
by that those same means his own share, though it be to ever so
small amount, receive encrease. Hence come the Crown
encreases personal expenditure, standing army, wars for conquest
and maintenance of distant dependencies.

The consequence is – either as the Monarchs expenditure
encreases, the peoples income diminishes: or at best, if the circumstances
of the country are so favorable, that it is not in the power of misrule.
Though ever so mischievous, altogether to put a stop to the encrease of wealth
and population, the encrease in the peoples income of the people bears
no proportion to the encrease of the Monarchs expenditure, nor is it in
any degree approaching to what, in the same country, under in a republican form of government
it would have been.

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Date_1	1823-07-04	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	037	Main Headings	constitutional code
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