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1822 June 29.
Constitutional Code
2°
Ch. Factitious dignity exposed.
17.
Subjects of deception are
1. Existence of the supposed service.
2. Magnitude of &
3. Need of reward for producing it.
4. Quantity of reward needed.
By greatest happiness
principle, remedies
are here afforded,
remedies such as have
never been afforded
under Monarchy.
18.
Notandums. Sole service
to which such
extraordinary reward
can apply be applied,
extraordinary service
- viz. 1. Service
rendered to others by
individuals at large
not under obligation
as to &do.
2. Service rendered by
functionary to public,
over and above what
by office he was under
obligation to render.
19.
True, cases exist
where to preserve requisite
extra service,
reward is needed in
more substantial and
universally acceptable
shapes viz money.
Example. At risk of life,
limb and health, extra
military service. Thus
are pensions for loss of limb,
life & wounds given by the
1. Most frugal and wise
at Governments.
20.
Notandum 3d. Factitious
dignity here marked
for exclusion is do as
ordinarily conferred on
Monarchies: i.e. without
collection and publication
of evidence
of the service on which
this reward was grounded.
21.
Sole means by which
Government should be
instrumental in conferring
dignity as a reward:
collection and
publication of the evidence
probatory of the
existence, shape, and quantity
of the service: with
the evil sustained or hazarded
by the service
rendered: with viz to himself.
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