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1822. Jan. 18. Codification Offer
S.1 Adjudication Universal
Unapt
VII.1
31.238
In so far as
successful,
every such endeavour
demonstrates
Constitution's inefficiency
to its professed end — viz.
greatest happiness &
and that it is the interest
of greatest number
to substitute to a Constitution
that admitts such
abuses the only one that
does not.
VII.2
32.239
By no one can the intentions
of those by whom
such my endeavours are
used be represented
more mischievous than
they are: blind or open
eyed to the mischief it
us the same.
VII.3
33.240
Instituting or keeping
on foot any such expressive
measure,
People's Representatives
demonstrated the endeavour,
with or without monarch, to establish
a despotism in
their own favour.
VII.4
34.241
Sooner or later, a mixt
Constitution under which
such endeavours can
have place, becomes
either pure Monarchy
or do Democracy: Monarchy
if people bear
it; Democracy if not.
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VIII.1
35.242
For a time, the forcible
substitutes of a mixt to a pure monarchy,
will endure to continue
in it a state more or
less mixt
Causes of such endurance.
1. Value set on security
by freshness of memory
of recent sufferings.
2. Sympathy for people
as fellow sufferers and
fellow actors.
3. Sense of need of their
voluntary support.
As their... weaken,
so will the endurance,
till it vanishes.
VIII.2
36.243
Meantime, with the
comparative severity,
encreases people's wealth,
power of contributing it
to government, actual
contribution, enacted
of the matter of corruptive
influence, encrease
of efficiency of do on
the part of Representatives,
encrease of the habit
of being governed by it.
Result, a monarchico-
aristocratical
yoke
more grievous, than a
purely monarchical
&., because more difficult
to shake off—
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