JB/037/369/001

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1822 Feb. 10
Constitutional Code

☞ This comes immediately after §. 1. Government what – ends of government

§. 2. Means of Government – means best adapted to that proper & sinister end.

The powers of by the exercise of which government is
carried on can not be exercised by all in the same manner
at the same time. Any such proposition as this – To say that is the best government
in which the powers of government are all of them
exercised by all the members of the community at the
same time would be a self-contradicting proposition,
by it would be asserted the existence of a government and at
the same time in the same community the non-existence of all any government.

The exercise of the powers of government consists in
the giving of directions or commands injunctive positive and prohibitive
and incidentally for securing compliance through
administering applying rewards and punishments and rewards.

In and by every such exercise is implied the separation of the
members of the community at each given point of time
is implied a separation of the whole number of the members of the community
into two classes: namely the governors and the governed:
the rulers and those over whom rule is exercised.

But though consistently with the continued existence of government
it is not possible impossible that this separation should as
to the two classes themselves be short otherwise than perpetual
of perpetual, yet not so is the existence of the same
individual at in both those classes so it be at different
points of time: of each class the whole population
might migrate into the other: Those who by are all of them the governors of at one moment
might all of may be all of them governed and not governors, during the
who second moment: while those who are governed during the
first moment may not be all of them governors the during the second moment.

Identifier: | JB/037/369/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 37.
Date_1	1822-02-10	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	037	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	369	Info in main headings field	constitutional law
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d3 / e1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	c wilmott 1819
Marginals		Paper Producer	andreas louriottis
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public		ID Number	11584
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