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1822 June 26
Constitutional Code. English Part – Proposed Heads.
Proposed Heads for
the part that relates
to England
General Title
The Contrast or
Things as they are in
England
Ch. English England Form
of the English Government – its
its dep original depravity
present and primæval
Ch. Conduct of the
English Government
its habitual depravity
Ch. Chief Instruments
of the Monarchical
Despotism – Lawyers
and Priests and
Lawyers.
Ch. Despotism
in England, why
less atrocious than
on the Continent
Ch. Eulogy lavished
on English
Government – its
causes.
Ch. Sole remedy to
the misrule, substitution
of a Pure Representative
Democracy
to the Next Monarchy.
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Ch. 1.
English Form of the
English Government
– its depravity, present
and primæval
§. 1. Actual sinister end of the
English Government
§. 2 Having no written
Constitution, it is arbitrary
in its essence
§. 3. Sufficiency of its means
for the accomplishment of
its sinister end. Actual
Distribution of its powers
§. 4. Impunity it secures
to all instruments of misrule.
§. 5. Whatsoever palliatives
there are to its mischievous
have been the
result – not of design
but impotence.
§. 6. The Judicial power
a secret an instrument of
arbitrary power tyranny in the hands
of the Monarch
§. 7. of Lawyers breasts
seats and sources of
moral depravity.
§. 8 Lawyers breasts seats
and sources of intellectual
depravity
§. 9. Priests instruments
of the Monarch – their
contribution to moral
and intellectual depravity.
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§. Essential and incurable
pravity of produced by a Monarchical
situation
§. 2 Essential and incurable
pravity produced
by the Aristocratical
situation
§ Essential and incurable
depravity produced
by Monarchy in Judicial
situations by Monarchy
§. Incidental causes
of pravity in judicial
situations – mode of
payment and anterior
occupation
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jeremy bentham |
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arthur wellesley, duke of wellington |
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