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1823 July 19
Constitut. Code

Corruption – Official corruption analysed.

Corruption is – official corruption – is an inseparable ingredient concomitant
in the texture of all government: it is a disease from which no
body politic ever was, or ever can be altogether free. This will
be made appear presently as we advance. To exclude is impossible
physically impossible. But what is not impossible, is – the reducing
the sinister effects of it to so small a mass quantum as to be nearly unpalpably insensible. In
the official establishment of the United States, the number of that community being more, corruption
– official corruption – can not but have place: but of its
effects so small is the quantity, that in on condition of its
not being at a higher pitch than those a lover of mankind might
will be content to accept at the hands of a superior power
that same Constitution for every future period of that community
and for every other political community upon earth, although a
part of the bargain were, that it should not at any time, there
or anywhere else be at any lower pitch. At the same time
by means of the here proposed arrangements, the quantum of corruption as the
sense here in question might it will be seen, in a considerable
degree, and without any risk of encrease, be reduced.

For the production of this effect, use a correct conception
of the nature of official corruption is altogether indispensable.
if in this view No work literary work being it is believed in existence in which the affording of any such conception has been so much as attempted the following is only is analytical
view sketch of the subject is for that purpose here presented.

Identifier: | JB/037/243/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 37.
Date_1	1823-07-19	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	037	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	243	Info in main headings field	constitut. code
Image	001	Titles	corruption - official corruption analysed
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	11458
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