JB/037/370/001

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1822 Feb. 10
Constitutional Code

In comparison of the governed the governors must in every

community be a small number, for those by whom the
operation of government are carried on can not during that
time be carrying on operations of any other sort: those
excepted by which the individual and those by which the species
are preserved. For the greatest portion of the labouring time
of the greatest number must at all time be employed
in the securing of the means of subsistence to the whole.

By whom then and how shall this distinction be made?
By what cause or causes shall it be determined who at each
moment shall be the governor, and who the governed?

The greatest happiness principle requires that
be the governors who they may, be the powers of government
exercised by them what they may, it is by of the will of the
governed that during each moment their existence in that
situation should be the result: that is to say that
after having been placed they should at certain intervals
of no great length be displaceable by the governed.

The governed can not, all of them be at all times exercising
the immediate powers of government, as above specified particularized
but at stated times they may all of them exercise the
function of declaring who the individuals shall be
by whom those same immediate powers shall be exercised.

Identifier: | JB/037/370/001 "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	370	Info in main headings field	constitutional code
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d5 / e3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	11585
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