JB/038/016/001

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1822 Jany. 19
Codification Offer

§. 5. Admission Universal
Members Unapt

18. 225
To encrease sweets, the
endeavour is to encrease
their sources: viz.
1. Wars.
2. Distant dependencies.

19. 226
Contribution afforded to
sweets by distant dependencies.
I. Constant.
1. Expence of carrying on
government there.
2. – Of constant preparation
for subduing refractoriness
there.
3. – Of do. for defending
against foreign aggression
there.
II. Incidental.
4. Civil wars for defence
of each dependency agst.
its inhabitants.
5. Foreign wars: for defending
each dependency against
foreigners, or acquiring
new ones.

20. 227
Necessarily included
in power is uncontrouledness
of power holders:
exemption from controul
for all acts, by which,
in the exercise of the
power, and the reaping
the attached enjoyments,
people's sufferings are
produced: acts which,
but for the power, would
be punished as offences.

21. 228
Efficient causes of controul are,
1. Punishment so called:
at the hands of the political
sanction.
2. Reproach: punishmt.
at the hand of the popular
or

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21 Contind.
or moral sanction:
inflicted by the tribunal
of public opinion.

22. 229
Sole instrument by
which controul can be
applied to political power
of governors by government
– public discussion
– viz. 1. Oral.
2. Graphical.

23. 230
Ways in which public
discussion applies controul –
1. by indication of each
mischievous act
2. by do. of do. agents,
3. by do. of the resulting
mischiefs,
4. by exciting popular
expressions of disapprobation.
Thus is reproach applied
actually, and punishment
contingently,
in so far as the evil rulers
are by law exposed
to it.

24. 231
Hence, constant endeavour
of rulers to prevent
such discussion.
25. 232
Means of preventing
public discussion are
applicable.
1. Antecedently.
2. Subsequently.

26. 233
Applicable antecedently
are –
1. to oral discussion, prevention
of public meetings
by forcible dispersion.

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26. contind.
2. – to graphical by the
press, Censorship, &c.
previous revision of
discourses destined for
publication.

27. 234
2. Applicable subsequently,
are –
1. to oral discussion, punishment
for obnoxious
discourse.
2. Do. for publication
of graphical.

28. 235
(Exposed to corruptive
influence are all the sharers
in Censorship power
as compleatly as
Peoples Representatives.)

29. 236
Against breach of trust
by Executive rulers, resources
are –
1. power of Representative
rulers: 2. appropriate
freedom of public
discussion.

30. 237.
Effect of suppression or
repression of public
discussion, proportionably
extensive licence
to misrule: every endeavour
to effect it, is
endeavour to establish
misrule: to all
good in the Constitution:
to substitute to it despotism.

Identifier: | JB/038/016/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 38.
Date_1	1822-01-19	Marginal Summary Numbering	[[marginal_summary_numbering::225 [or] 8 - 237 [or] 30]]
Box	038	Main Headings	codification proposal (codification offer)
Folio number	016	Info in main headings field	codification offer
Image	001	Titles	admission universal / members unapt
Category	marginal summary sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d26 / e2
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	11653
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