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1823. July 4
Constitut. Code

All this being undeniable nothing can be more groundless – nothing
more frivolous were it not for its practical mischievousness, nothing
more frivolous than the distinction between a good and bad Monarch:
as if by any qualities on the part of this or that individual
Monarch the mischievousness maleficence of Monarchy could be materially
diminished. Never by his crimes did the most atrocious of
criminals ever do a thousandth part of the evil by his crime
of the a thousandth part of the suffering produced by in the case of the most
beloved Monarch by his existence. If by good be the meant
beneficial to of every expression by which goodness is
predicated of a King as a self-contradictory proposition,
to talk of a good King is to talk of white , or black .

A people governed by a Monarch is a people governed
by its worst enemy and that enemy an irresistible and essentially
implacable one.

While the expectation is confined cast laid on to the individual, the species
escapes: but it is from the species that all the evil comes.
When a party man cries this is a bad King let us have a good
one what he means is: this King is in league with our successful
rivals: give us let us have another that will be an instrument in our
hands. Of a newly set up King the hostility to the people will
be kept more or less within bounds by the fear of being dislocated
and the such used as he conceives himself to have of their support
or at any rate of their neutrality: but in his interests, his desires, his endeavours
will be the hostility will be as certain and implacable
as the old one.

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Date_1	1823-07-04	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	037	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	200	Info in main headings field	constitut. code
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1822
Marginals		Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1822
Notes public		ID Number	11415
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