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1823. June 13
Constitut. Code

The work in which contains by far the greatest quantity of
sound reasoning and useful instruction on the subject of
government is to be found is the Federalist. But even
there the instances passages in which no clear ideas a want of clearness in the ideas are found
attached to the words and phrases employed are but too
frequent, and the form given to the work being in the form of letter, the
reasoning is disabling and unmethodical.

At the end of 50 pages and not less comes a phrase in which
a business of which is to give lay down a definition of the end of
Government. "Justice" (II. 51 is the end of government). This
immediately after "It is the end of civil society. But
Justice what is it that we are to understand by Justice
and why not happiness but justice. What happiness is
every man is because what pleasure is every man knows
and what pain is every man knows. But what justice
is – this is what on every occasion is the subject matter of dispute.
By the meaning of the word justice Let justice mean what it will, what regard is it worth entitled
to otherwise than as a means of happiness. By
justice did he mean equality? Instead of justice he should
then have said equality. But of the four specific and thence
subordinate proper ends of government equality is but one, and
of that the importance neither so great nor so clearly visible
as the three others or in two at least, namely subsistence and
security, of the others.

Identifier: | JB/037/310/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 37.
Date_1	1823-06-13	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	037	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	310	Info in main headings field	constitut. code
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1822
Marginals		Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1822
Notes public		ID Number	11525
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