JB/037/402/001

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1824 Aug. 23
Constitutional Code

Position 2 to be proved. A Monarch can not but be deficient in
appropriate moral aptitude.

Moral aptitude continued

Case of a Monarch – an absolute Monarch.

As in the case of each individual among the people taken
separately, so in the case of any one, in the the sovereign power
of location and dislocation with regard to all other functionaries
being now by the supposition in his hands, his desires and endeavours
will be to employ it to the production of the maximum of happiness
to himself, to the comparative disregard of the happiness of all
besides, and, in so far as competition his or appears to him to
have place to the sacrifice of the happiness of all besides to his
own individual happiness. That which by admission each individual
of the people would do if he had power but never would because
he never has the power, the Monarch, having by the supposition having
the power will do of course. Apply this to the of

Apply this to the several abovementioned elements of political felicity
as above.

The matter of subsistence and abundance being by the supposition at his
command, as also the means of security, he will to the
accumulation, and keeping them accumulated then into his own hands, in so far as they can
be in his own hands with the satisfaction of
his own desires will all his desires and endeavours be of
course constantly directed: and thus it is that, at the
expence of those all but himself and those the few by the imparting
of pleasure to whom his own pleasure will be is encreased, will
those desires be on all occasions constantly receiving their gratification: and
thus as between himself in the one part and those to whose
external means of felicity are thus constantly sacrificed to his own,
will practical Equality be excluded – inequality maximized.

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Date_1	1824-08-23	Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	037	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	402	Info in main headings field	constitutional code
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d6
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	11617
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