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1822 Aug. 22
Constitut. Code First Principle

1.
Rule – its 1. Nature –
primary modifications
2. their operations.
3. their subject matter
4. Incorpreal Instruments. 5. Corporeal
instruments.
I. Its nature.
1. Nature. Power exercised
on the largest
scale in respect of extent:
i.e. number of
persons over whom exercised:
all the members
of the community in
question: those of whose
interest is composed the
universal interest.
to rule
Government.

2.
2. Its primary modifications
– 1. Good. 2. Bad:
reference had to felicity
and infelicity.

3.
The beings over and
by whom rule is exercised
being sensitive
the denoted
by good and bad can not
but have in common
this relation to felicity
and infelicity, happiness
and unhappiness.

4.
Set aside this reference.
All the idea they can
convey is that of pleasure
and pain as having place
int he mind by which
they are respectively
contemplated.

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5.
By good rule, J.B. means
that one of the two modifications
the contemplation
of which is in
his mind attended with
pleasure: namely, that
one which has for its
end in view and object
of pursuit, and its attainment
for the object
of endeavour greatest
number's greatest happiness:
by bad rule, that
which has for do. not
greatest numbers but
some lessers. For (as will
be seen) for few's happiness
can not be taken for the
only end, but many
must be lessened.

6.
According to this description,
Good Rule
is that which has for
its end in view greatest
happiness of greatest number: bad rule
any that has for do. not
that but any lesser number.

7.
Being sensitive beings,
by the persons by whom
misrule is exercised
will be
those whose greatest
happiness will be their
end in view.

8.
In the case of rule at
large, it will be seen
that notwithstanding his
own greatest happiness is
the end in view of every
ruler, yet of the whole form
of government taken together,
it is not impossible
that greatest number's
greatest happiness
may be the end in
view.

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Date_1	1822-08-22	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-8
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