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1820 June 20. 1822 Aug. 4
Constitut. Code Emancipation Spanish

§ Corruptive influence

102. 1.
Profit, by corruptive
influence, applicable
to people's interests representatives.
Use or profit in
this shape, securing do.
in all those others.

103. 2. Peculiar to Represent system
Peculiar this to a mixt
constitution in which,
with functionaries
not chosen by the people,
are some that are.

3. Peoples interest as to money &c People's interest it is,
that money, taken
from their gratification,
and not necessary
to their security, be
a minimum: ruler's
that it be a maximum.

104 4. Peculiar to Represent System
In a pure Monarchy
monarch's instruments
of felicity all 4
them sweets of Government have but that one value:
in a mixt do., that
and the one they possess
as instruments
of corruption: self
applying instruments
which never fail to
engage all such Trustees
to betray their
trust.

105 5. Matter of corruptive influence
Of these instrumts sweets of
of government felicity, money,
power, reputation,
and corruptive influence
interconvertible.

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§ Corruptive influence

106 6. Matter its power is in the quantity.
As of these instruments,
each operates towards
the acquisition
and preservation of
the rest in the same
hands, so does the aggregate
of their power, in
all its shapes, operate
incessantly towards its own encrease: Out-stripping,
constantly,
the possession, the desire
of power is constantly
insatiable, having
no other powers bounds than
those set to it, by the
correspondent capacity
of endurance, on the
part of the people.

107. 7. Matter – power is as quantity.
So, with the desire,
encreases the facility,
of operating towards the
satisfying it: viz. by
sacrifice of he universal,
to the particular
and sinister interest.

108. 8. Matter – Power is as quantity.
The more influence
possessed, in all the above
shapes, by means
of this dominion, by the
whole rulers, the greater
the facility for promoting
personal, by sacrifice of
universal, interest: and
the adequate endeavour
can not be donated.

109. 9.
Not that, if no such dominion,
the trust will
not be betrayed; nor,
therefore, that by abandonment
alone, the breach
would be prevented.
Only that, from retention,
the breach of trust,
and reproduction of
tyranny, will receive
certainty and promptitude.

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Identifier: | JB/038/105/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 38.
Date_1	1820-06-20	Marginal Summary Numbering	[[marginal_summary_numbering::102 [or] 1 - 110 or 10, 111-112]]
Box	038	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	105	Info in main headings field	constitut. code
Image	001	Titles	corruptive influence
Category	marginal summary sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d11 / e1
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks	[[watermarks::i&m [prince of wales feathers] 1818]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	arthur wellesley, duke of wellington
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1818
Notes public		ID Number	11742
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