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1821 Dec. 7 C 18
Codification Pro Constitut. Code

Appendix
§. 1. Draughtsman
§. 1. Monarchs interest

19.
Position 3. To which
situation belongs a sinister
interest.
Position 4. In which
situation, influence of the
sinister interest receives
increase, proportioned to
the number of the workmen.

144 20. 1
1. Monarch's sinister interest.
General description.
To possess, and even, so
far as consistent with
enjoyment, retain, maximum
of transferrable
instruments of felicity: objects
of general design — viz.
1. Money, including money's
worth.
2. Power — political power.
3. Factitious dignity.
This, every man's interest:
therefore Monarch's.

145 21. 2.
Position, Monarch's interest,
as such, is by the whole
amount of it, a sinister
interest.
Follows proof.
1. Legitimate every man's
share in the universal
interest.
2. Also each man's particular
interest in so far as
not adverse to universal
interest.
3. Sinister every man's
particular interest in so far
as adverse to universal do.

146 22. 3.
Points of adverseness
between universal interest
and Monarch's do.
1. Universal interest is
that each should have
the maximum of subsistence,


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§. 1. Monarchs interest

147 3. 22 contind.
Subsistence, abundance,
security in all shapes,
equality in so far as
consists with the other three.
2. Monarch's, that all be
his exclusively, in so far
as possible.

148 23 4.
I. Interest as to money
i.e. Subsistence & abundance.
Universal is that each
have as much as possible.
Monarch's, that none have
more than necessary for
subsistence: he all besides.

149 24 5.
Interests as to power:
1. Universal's, that in no
one be power, over and
above what is necessary
to greatest happiness etc.
2. Monarch's, that in him
be all power possible: in
no other hands power not
exercisible by him.

150 25. 6.
III. Interest as to factitious
dignity.
I. Universal that there be
none; because
1. By each man exaltation
is produced every other's
depression humiliation.
2. By factitious dignity,
power is encreased.
3. By power, faculty of
obtaining money at
expence of others.
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2. Monarch's interest that
there be of factitious
dignity the maximum,
and the highest his own.
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4. The service by which
factitious dignity is more
easily observed than power or
money is most apt to be that
which is service to the
and thence sinister interest of the Monarch.


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Appendix
§. 1. Monarchs interest

151 26. 7.
IV. Interests as to security.
I. Universal, is — that each
should have it in all its
branches: viz. against
1. Evil from causes purely
physical.
2. From misdeeds of internal
misdoers, not being
rulers.
3. From do. of internal
do. rulers
4. From external, i.e.
enemies so called.
II. Monarch's, that no other
individual have any
security against evil from
his misdeeds, or any other
he pleases to authorize.

152 27. 8.
Sinister sacrifice, every
sacrifice of universal
interest to particular do.
1. Universal interest is
that there be no such
sacrifice.
2. Monarch's that the
sinister sacrifice of
universal to his particular
interest be a maximum.

153 28. 9.
To this end, it is his
interest, that all means
necessary or contributory
should have place:
viz.
1. Means to Monarch's
absolute power, subject's
correspondingly
unreserved obedience,
passive and active.


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Identifier: | JB/038/108/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 38.

Date_1

1821-12-07

Marginal Summary Numbering

[[marginal_summary_numbering::144 [or] 1 - 146 [or] 3, 147 [or] 3 - 153 [or] 9]]

Box

038

Main Headings

constitutional code rationale

Folio number

108

Info in main headings field

constitut. code rationale

Image

001

Titles

monarchs interest

Category

marginal summary sheet

Number of Pages

1

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recto

Page Numbering

d18 / e1

Penner

john flowerdew colls

Watermarks

j whatman 1819

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Paper Producer

john flowerdew colls

Corrections

jeremy bentham

Paper Produced in Year

1819

Notes public

ID Number

11745

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