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1823 July 7
Constitut. Code. Ch. 12. §. 17. Supplement

The effect of the Operative has an interest opposite to do of Constitutive
their endeavours to corrupt itself.

6. 5. Corruptor or Corruptors – persons parties by whom the benefit from
the sinister effect is reaped.

On such individual receiving these These may be distinguished into 1. Special corruptor or Corruptors:
2. Corruptor or Corruptors General: Special Corruptors,
those by whom the benefit of on the occasion of this or that individual particular
transaction is reaped: Corruptors General those by
whom the benefit from the entire whole system of corruption taken in
the aggregate are is reaped. See partic part

In every political state the whole aggregate body of public functionaries
the whole population of the Operative department require to be considered
in the character of corruptors and corruptees: at the best they are at
all times exposed to the temptation of being so, and in a greater or less
degree sure to be made to yield to that temptation: In a republic
the sinister effect of that temptation is capable of being confined within bands,
within such bands as will leave a very small very little space indeed in which just
regret can place itself.

Under in every form of government political state the interest of the ruling functionaries
is by the unchangeable nature of their situation placed in a state of opposition
to the universal interest – to the greatest happiness of the greatest number. In Und every state
form of Government but that which places over the Supreme Operatives a
Constitutive authority with dislocative power with relation to it as well
as locative, the greatest number are without remedy: and their entire
will is – upon every occasion sacrificed to the interest real or supposed
of the ruling few, the aggregate body of public functionaries: the interest
of the principal – to the interest of those who are or ought to be their Agents
and Trustees.

Under every such form of government therefore accordingly the root and
cause of the corruption the corruption is and ever has been universal: having for the root and
cause of it, the whole system: the very relation itself that has place
between the ruling few and the subject many; between the governors and
the governed:

Between the corruptors and his corruptees the difference distinction is not very
easy to trace out and delineate. With reference to the rulers of all succeeding
times taken together, the rulers of all antecedent times may be
stated as being having been corruptors: for by the one former to the other latter has that form of
government been transmitted by which to an extent amount more or less considerable
the sacrifice of the interest and happiness of subjects to the interest and happiness
of rulers has been established and secured.

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Date_1	1823-07-07	Marginal Summary Numbering	20-24
Box	037	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	226	Info in main headings field	constitut. code
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	c wilmott 1819
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Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1819
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