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1822 May 17 Economy Ch. 5 Search for Money Maximized

1.

III. Security 3. Minimizing
money at disposal
of highest functionaries.

1. Necessary the office
of Chief Executive
functionary
2. Desirable its being
in a single hand.
3. Necessary in his
hands to a great extent
power of locating subordinates.
4. And of dislocating
them.

2.

Necessary to an indeterminate
extent power of remuneration
for engaging their acceptance.

3.

For aptly executing
functions to which no
power is attached,
men may be engaged
by compulsion,
witness privates in
military service by
land and sea.
Not for executing functions
to which power
is attached: evil consequence
would be
desertion and negligence:
things of persons
subject to their power
would remain unemployed
or ill—employed.
For not doing that
which it is not known
he can do man can
not be punished.

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4.

Pay therefore can not
be altogether withdrawn
from office — of offices
to a large extent the
location can not be
in any other hand than
that of a chief executive
functionary who himself
is in a state of
subordination to the
situation of the body
in which as above the
greatest happiness of
the greatest number
requires that the suppressed
operative
power be lodged.

5.

Preventing chief—functionary
from producing
in the minds of the legislative
functionaries
by giving endowed
offices to others, the
same effect as if those
offices were given to
themselves is not possible: for
I. Of the communication
of benefit from the endowed
functionary to
the legislative functionary,
no adequate
evidence can the nature
of the case afford.
II. Laws not enactible.
1. Law punishing A for
the legislative functionary
for B's acceptance
of an office.
2. Law invalidating the
the location of every man
having any connection of

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5 contind.

of interest or sympathy
with any legislative
functionary.
3. Law, by punishment
or invalidation, inhibiting
A from being motivated
by a kindness done to B.
4. Law, inhibiting A
from doing the will of
C on account of his
having done, or being
expected to do a kindness
to B.

6.

As a means of preventing
a legislative functionary
from doing the
sinister will of the Chief
Executive (giver of good
gifts) to propose a law
inhibiting do functionary
from receiving such
gifts himself is imbecility
or hypocrisy &
treachery: imbecility
if he sees not the inexpediency;
treachery if
he does — the tendency of
such false
being to avert the public
mind from efficient do.: to cause men
to think the sinister sacrifice
is already prevented,
as well as intended to be prevented:
whereas it is intended to
be promoted.
Axiom of psychological
pathology — Qui facit
per alium, facit
per se.

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7.

Placing this within
reach of legislative
per se functionary good gifts
at the disposal of the
Chief Executive, is sowing
in the Constitution
seeds of corruptive
influence: enabling
and exciting Executive
and Executive to become
accomplices in trust—breaking
(like placing flesh in )
circumstances, yet
this is the work of
necessity & unavoidable.

8.

For preventing effective
corruption, i.e. joint
performance of the
sinister sacrifice,
sole means minimizing
the quantity & value
of the matter of corruption
in Chief functionaries,
with the application
of counterforces
as below.
This the Interest of
both that the quantity
and value if it be maximized.

Identifier: | JB/038/035/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 38.
Date_1	1822-05-17	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-8
Box	038	Main Headings	economy as to office
Folio number	035	Info in main headings field	economy
Image	001	Titles	securities for moral aptitude / money minimized
Category	marginal summary sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e1
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks	[[watermarks::i&m [prince of wales feathers] 1818]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	arthur wellesley, duke of wellington
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1818
Notes public		ID Number	11672
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