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1823 July 7
Constitut. Code.

5. IX. The immediately receiving hand: This may be that of the corruptee, or the hand by which, without the intervention
of any other the sinister and corruptive benefit is received. This may be of the
corruptee, or any other: It may of any other person whatsoever, if connected
with the corruptor by any tie of interest: whether self-regarding, or any though it be but sympathetic
interest. For example a son of the corruptee, or any other person
who is in such sort in the dependence of corruptee, that but for
the sinister benefit conferred on the related hand thus received by the corruptee
would at his own expence if made provision for the receiver such dependent immediate
to the same or any part of the amount: a dependent,
or even an ever so perfectly independent friend. So long as sympathy
has place in the breast of men corruption between man and man the sinister effect of corruption
may be produced as fully by a benefit conferred on a person other
that the corruptee as by a benefit conferred on the corruptee himself.

Thus may be seen the futility sure inefficiency and futility of
all arrangements by which it is professed to exclude corruption by
penalties imposed on the corruptee on the count of his receiving the
matter of corruption by his own hand.

To yourself if A benefit received conferred on and received by another person may To yourself the value of a benefit conferred on another person
may be inferior in value to that of a benef the same benefit
conferred on yourself, or it may be of exactly equal value,
it will be, if but for the benefit so conferred and received, you would
have conferred on that same person that same benefit at your own
expence: where this is not the case, the value of it to you in
in a of proportion it is susceptible of different values
expressible by numbers in a decreasing series, of which the highest
term is the value it would be of to you if conferred on and received
by yourself, and the lowest term 0.

Thus stands the matter, as between a single benefit conferred on
yourself, and the same benefit conferred on a person connected with you by
ties of self-regarding or sympathetic interest. But through the medium
of others, one and the same person is susceptible of benefits, and thence of to the number
benefits and value of which there is no end: benefits which may, all every one of them
is before or after receipt, with or without receipt have been operating on his
mind with a corruptive influence. And in a government in which
corruption reigns uncontrouled, in this situation condition is the mind of every public
functionary, and of every individual who hopes to be so.

Identifier: | JB/037/225/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 37.
Date_1	1823-07-07	Marginal Summary Numbering	16, 19, 17-18
Box	037	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	225	Info in main headings field	constitut. code
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1 / e4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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