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

At the expence of the people is obtained every farthing of that
enormous mass of the matter of wealth by which the condition of the
Monarch is distinguished from that of the subject. To every Monarch
belongs a crown; to that crown, lustre: Monarch, crown and
lustre all require money for their support: and to the quantity of this money
there are no limits: it can admitt of no diminution: it can
admitt of every encrease: by one means or other it is continually
on the encrease. To the Look to the several European Monarchies
you will find the amount of it varying from what suffices for the maintenance
of 10,000 to what suffices for the maintenance of 100,000 of his

In Spain about the year 1776 the avowed expenditure upon the
persons of the King and his family amounted to one fourth of the
whole expenditure of government: and to this avowed expenditure
was known to be added to a vast though necessary unascertainable amount.
Of this expenditure be it what it may not a particle is of any
real use to the people in any shape: not a particle that, besides the
suffering produced by the loss by the forced contribution, is not
productive of suffering evil to an unlimited immense amount: for of the matter
of wealth thus extorted and wasted, every particle operates as
matter of corruption, matter of corruptive influence, as will be seen
below. It would be a calculation no less curious than instructive
would be, by the support given to he lustre of the crown
has many of the people what the number is of those are every year consigned to lingering
death for want of sufficient, how many what the number of those who are prevented from coming
into existence.

The quantity of the matter of wealth thus employed applied
in the case attempts production of personal gratification of this
one individual is yet not the largest portion of what is thus
consumed in supporting that form of government which had
and has that gratification for its sole object. To the maintenance
of the extortion and oppression, a standing army under the
command of the Monarch is an instrument universally indispensable:
and to the magnitude and consequently to the expensiveness
of that army there are no other limits than those
which are constituted by the inability of the people to defray
the expence without such such a degree of mortality
as by lessening the amount of the productive labour would upon the quantity of
the produce capable of being extorted.

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Date_1	1823-07-04	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	037	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	197	Info in main headings field	constitut. code
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1822
Marginals		Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1822
Notes public		ID Number	11412
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