JB/037/399/001

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1824 Aug. 22
Constitutional Code

1. First position to be proved – The people The people will not be deficient in appropriate moral aptitude. For the
exercise of sovereignty that is to say for the location and dislo
of those by whom the business of government is to be conducted
in chief and for the eventual dislocation of them and of all in authority
under them, as per Ch. 4. the people can not in any political
State, be, on any just grounds stated as being deficient in appropriate
aptitude.

1. They may on just grounds be stated as apt to choose apt
Agents for the exercises of the Legislative authority as per Ch. 4.
Agents such as shall themselves be apt either by themselves or other
Agents subordinate to them to choose apt Agents apt for the
exercise of the several other with functions of Government whatsoever
they may be.

As in the case of any other task, so in the case of this
the aggregate of relative or say appropriate aptitude will in some examination
be seen to be composed of four elementary portions
and no more: to wit 1. appropriate moral aptitude: 2. cognoscitive aptitude: 3. judicative aptitude. 4. active aptitude,
understand in regard to each of them appropriate or say
relative, relation had to the task or work in hand. By cognoscitive
aptitude understand that which consists in the possession
of appropriate knowledge: by judicative aptitude, that which
consists in the possession of the faculty of judgment in a sufficient
degree of perfection, relation had to the task in hand. By
intellectu Cognoscitive and judicative aptitude taken together constitute
intellectual aptitude: and in so far as they are united
in the same person, the appellative intellectual aptitude may
for shortness be employed instead of employing those same two
appellatives.

Add all those elements each in adequate degree together the aggregate of appropriate aptitude will be obtained:
Let any one of them be wanting it will not be attained: and by the appropriate moral aptitude, it will be
seen is that element, by
the absence of which the
greatest gap in the adequate
complement of appropriate
aptitude will be constituted.

Identifier: | JB/037/399/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 37.
Date_1	1824-08-22	Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	037	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	399	Info in main headings field	constitut. code
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d3 / e3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1823
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1823
Notes public		ID Number	11614
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