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1823 July 9
Constitut. Code

The fictitious entity termed An Office is stiled also a place – an official situation.
The person in whom the obligation of performing the function
allotted to it is imposed is said to be in the office – the
place – the situation – to be in it and to fill it. The business
performed by the exercise of those several functions being,
when taken in the aggregate, a course of action directed to
one common end, namely the giving execution and effect
to the will of the supreme legislators, it is material, that
unless for special cause of exception the determination determining
by whom what persons respectivelythey should all be filled be lodged in the same
hand. Here then lodged in this one hand and at the disposal
of the hand is this vast assemblage mass or stock of the instruments of
felicity composed of money in various shapes and power in
various shapes, with or without that mass of fictitious dignity
in various shapes – fictitious dignity that offspring of the fancy
which though neither necessary nor conducive to good government
has almost everywhere where been by the concurrent confused
of various causes, been added to the stock of the instruments of
of governments. Here then is an use Patronage is the name
by which given to the power of disposing of several elementary masses
of which this aggregate mass is composed of is designated.

To create the power and by its ordinance to provide the
money, belongs to the legislature, the supreme legislators money, the power attached corresponding to the moral office and the money
also employed in engaging mens acceptance of those with the burthen
with which they are respectively charged. To the who ever possesses
it not only th money and power on the one hand but
the power of disposing of it, or in one word patronage on the other,
is so much to if not so much actual at any rate the equivalent
of it. Here then is one individual at least whose interest it is
that of this wealth the matter of good in this shape the quantity at his disposal be as great as
possible. But at the same time On the other hand to give encrease to it is
not in his own power: it is in the power of the legislature that is
the authority or check and in which alone the power of giving encrease
to it is reposed.

Identifier: | JB/037/235/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 37.
Date_1	1823-07-09	Marginal Summary Numbering	9, 9*, 10-12
Box	037	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	235	Info in main headings field	constitut. code
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1822
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1822
Notes public		ID Number	11450
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