JB/037/251/001

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1823 July 20
Constitut. Code

From everything that has been seen it follows that as against
political corruption in every situation and every shape, prohibition and punishment
are necessarily and completely and universally ineffective
and useless. You can not punish a man for entertaining expectations:
you can not punish another man for gratifying or for raising
expectations. You can not punish a man for doing kindnesses
for conferring benefits: you can not punish a one man for confer
because benefit in any shape has been conferred on another:
you can not punish by any punishment inflicted or threatened
to be inflicted on re one man prevent another or undertake to prevent another
man from receiving benefit in any shape. You may In him
In every case you Contract having for its object the corresponding
power of sinister service you may prohibit in all cases, and in
here and there an instance, in consequence by means of accident or by means
of treachery you may punish for it for it you may actually inflict punishment
for. But though you were to inflict the punishment in any
case in which the prohibition is infringed and the offence committed,
you would be no near nearer the mark, if prevention of corruption
was your mark, than if no such prohibition had been issued. Why? Even Because
without any such contract, corruption as effectual and
as great in extent and in every part of its extent as effectual
as by means of contract may have, and will be sure to have place.

If this be so, and if to every one eye that will turn to it this
mos inability be visible everybody may see know what to think of laws enacted
or proposed for the prevention of punishment or prevention of contracts
in such cases, for the prevention exclusion of the hold practice of holding offices
by men having seats in the legislative body, if designed as a means of preventing corruption and by harangues having
for their professed object the directing pointing the punitory castigatory force of the Public Opinion
Tribunal against the parties to any such contracts.

Identifier: | JB/037/251/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 37.
Date_1	1823-07-20	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	037	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	251	Info in main headings field	constitut. code
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e9
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1822
Marginals		Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1822
Notes public		ID Number	11466
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