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1822 Oct. 27
Constitut. Code

The art of Government, as everywhere practiced is
the art of producing to the persons exercising the powers of
government the greatest quantity of happiness felicity possible in so
far as obtainable by means of the external instruments
of happiness felicity.

The science of government has been the corresponding
science: – the knowing how to produce &c, as above.

The external instruments of felicity are the
fruits the products of human service, which in so far as they are
contributory to the happiness of the people in question are beneficial, with reference to the
The art of government service – useful services
valuable services.

The art of government has therefore been the
art of extracting from the persons over whom the power of
government are exercised for the benefit of the rulers as above service in all shapes in which
it is regarded as contributory to the happiness of those
same rulers.

Services obtained The incorporeal instruments
by which services are extracted obtained are obtained by
of action influence operating on the will or the understanding.
Influence operating on the will is either fear or hope:
influence operating on the understanding, by the production by correct conceptions or reason, reasoning
– right just argument: influence operating by the
production of incorrect conceptions is delusion.

Services are extracted by fear through the medium
of penal laws; by hope, through the medium of patronage,
by delusion, through the medium of factitious dignity.
By Penal laws it is only in particular shapes this or that particular shape, on this or that particular occasion that service
can be extracted: by patronage and factitious dignity it is extracted
in all its imaginable shapes, and on all occasions.

Identifier: | JB/037/394/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 37.
Date_1	1824-10-27	Marginal Summary Numbering	1
Box	037	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	394	Info in main headings field	constitut. code
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Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
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