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1822 July 1
Constitut. Code

1.
Rationale.
Question. Supreme Executive
why not locate
in his hands do. Legislative?
thence, the whole
of do. Operative?
A. If so, appropriate
inaptitude maximized.

2.
Moral inaptitude.
In pursuance of the
universal self-preference,
sole end of Government
will then be, Monarch's
greatest happiness.
Pursued this will be
without regard to, and at
expence, and by sacrifice
of universal do.
To his sinister interest
no check, no counterforce,
to his desire to
make the sinister sacrifice,
opposition none:
adequate means always
at command, the sacrifice
will be constantly
consummated.

3.
Particulars of the sacrifice.
Within his own
grasp, external instruments
of felicity maximized,
at expence and by
sacrifice of peoples
felicity.

4.
All around him, being
for their felicity dependent
on his pleasure, will
join in the assurance
that his happiness is
the only proper end: if
any one
entitled to regard, it is
only in so far as their
happiness is an object
of his sympathy.

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5.
Of sympathy, as, in proprietor's
eyes Working
Cattle are the objects, so
in Monarch's will
subjects be. Optimum,
subject's treatment as good
as Cattles under a good
tempered master. Probably
not quite so good. Continually
in masters pretence
are his horses: by
visible tokens, bad treament
of them will be
manifested: sympathy excited
– by subjects, not:
Known to master, that the
quantity of sorrow obtainable
without prejudice
to appearance and
value is limited: hence,
excess none. By known
inferiority of their minds
they are saved from being
objects of his anger.

6.
Not so, subjects. Under
his eyes, comparatively
few: of the worst treated
none: especially during
such treatment. By many,
his anger will continually
be called forth:
by every obstruction to
his will: howsoever
kept down by fear & hope
numerous will such
obstructions be.

7.
With the quantity of external
instruments of
felicity in his hands,
never is he satisfied.
Never can he be. In his
desires are included those
of all in his immediate
service: none of them
ever satisfied.

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8.
No gain in happiness
can he make, but prodigiously
greater loss to
others happiness must
be produced. To the sufferers
this can not be
unknown. He knowing
this, they are in his eyes
his enemies: he is therefore
theirs. For keeping
down the resistance &
gratifying his enmity, magnitude
of punishments
is more and more screwed
up to the highest pitch,
regarded as consistent
with their efficiency.
Thus, best tempered Monarch
enemy and implacable:
what a bad do..

9.
As in their own Monarch
men have an
enemy, so in every other.
Betwixt Monarch and
Monarch, sympathy
universal. Cause of
the same
to all – fear, corruption,
delusion, sinister interest,
interest begotten
and authority begotten
prejudice. What shakes
the throne
shakes all. Stiling themselves
brothers, they are
sincere: paramount to
every other is their common
interest.

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Date_1	1822-07-01	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-9
Box	038	Main Headings	constitutional code rationale
Folio number	123	Info in main headings field	constitut. code rationale
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