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1823. May 26
Constitut. Code

Appropriate moral aptitude is much more likely to be
deficient in the authors of any such restriction arrangements
than in those on whom it is imposed. How adverse so ever
to the universal interest a any power which they thus confer on themselves
and their connections – how pregnant so ever with suffering to
the people, they thus so long as the restriction excludes the people from all possibility
of being relieved from it.

Every sinister interest, and every absurd and evil-fraught prejudice persuasion
tha has place in the whole body, looks for and to too great
an extent finds in such restriction a means of giving perpetually perpetuating to its gratification.
this is done with relation to a part more or less considerable of the field of abuse which, by a second assembly not
located nor dislocable by the people, is done with relation to the whole.

To be employed in giving support and stability to evil in every
shape is the characteristic property of an arrangement
of this sort: to put an exclusion upon a good law – upon
a law by which, if established, evil in some shape or other
would be excluded: upon a law so plainly good that this
same restrictive arrangement is the only bar that with
any colour of reason could can be opposed to the inactions
of it. For suppose the proposed law is a bad one, the worse it is
the stronger will be the objection opposed by its badness,
and for this objection there can not be any need.

Against the bad laws in the shapes in which it does not
so much as profess to apply it affords consequate not any security: and
supposing adequate power every particular and sinister interest
of rulers may find every gratification and the universal
interest receives correspondently extensive injury from those unselected
laws, without recourse to any that have been made to
stand inhibited.

By furnishing a supposed or pretended security which upon examination
will be seen to be false an efficient it thus aside mens
attention and desires and endeavours from the supposed only alledged security which
is such in reality.

Identifier: | JB/037/278/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 37.
Date_1	1823-05-26	Marginal Summary Numbering	12-17
Box	037	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	278	Info in main headings field	constitut. code
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e5
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	11493
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