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1823. March 15
Constitutional Code 1. Enactive
Ch. Aspect Bearing of Constitutional Law to Distributive – sometimes
called Civil Law.
Art. Not only the comfort of the individuals but the
security of the whole community as well against the calamity of famine as against external hostility requires that in the hands
of individuals abundance be maximized protected: the superflux treasure
of the comparatively opulent perfomer renders the service
is one Office to the comparatively indigent.
But⊞ ⊞ forasmuch as the
it is in only in a
minute ruler that
encrease of happiness
is concomitant with
the encrease of the
external means of
happiness the principle Equality requires that as far as may
be without taking doing away the inducement to productive industry
and frugality the opulent few should be prevented
from changing the government from a form which has for its end in view the
greatest happiness of the greatest number that one which has for its object the greatest happiness of a few comparatively few
from doing injury to the indigent many by means of
the power proportionally and necessarily attached to opulence: and that
so often as can be done without the production of the
sensation of loss opportunity should be taken employed in breaking
down large masses into smaller ones.
Thence it is that on the death of the proprietor
provision is made in the distributive branch of the law
that he to prevent the accumulati it from descending falling
entire to into a the lap of any single person to the individual, in a family
or any smaller of brothers and sisters to the exclusion
of the integral total or partial of the rest.
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