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1823. April 29.
Constitut. Code

1.
Means employed by sinister
interest for the accomplishment
of it's ends, as
above.
These are pernicious instruments
of Government
added to the necessary ones.

2.
Corporeal instruments
actually employed by Government.
Corporeal are.
1. Things – 2. persons.

3.
Incorporeal are.
1. Force.
2. Intimidation.
3. Apt remuneration.
4. Corruption.
5. Delusion.

4.
1. By force, understand
physical force: force applied
by body to body.

5.
2. By intimidation, force
applied by mind to mind.

6.
3. By apt remuneration,
matter of good applied by
action on the will to the
production of service
useful to universal interest.

7.
4. By corruption, do. applied
to the service of
sinister, at the expence of
universal interest.

8.
5. By delusion, producing
erroneous conceptions,
the effect of which is, to engage
men to concurr in
the sacrifice of universal
to the sinister interest.

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8 (a.)
Corruption designates indiscriminately
the operation
and the result.
So delusion. This ambiguity
pervades the whole
extent of Rome-sprung
language, perhaps of all
language.

9.
These conceptions are –
1. Maximization of ruler's
happiness, the only or preferable
end of Governmt.

10.
2. Maximization of universal
happiness the actual
end of rulers to the exclusion
of, or in preference
to, their own.

11.
3. In all it's branches, moral,
intellectual and active,
virtue is an endowment
inherent in rulers
to the exclusion of, or in
preference to, non-rulers.

12.
In this 3d. error, a sort
of support is found for
the two others: by themselves
too absurd to find
entrance into any thinking
mind.

13.
Of the mixture of the
three is formed a sort of
cloud continually changing
form and colour: by it, is
produced a disposition incompatible
with the steady
contemplation of anyone.

14.
Eminently false is the 3d.
notion: for 1. No such endowment
can have place in
human interest. – 2. The class in
question are further than every other from possessing it. For proof see §.5.

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14.
For the corporeal & other
instruments employed
in producing these instruments
of delusion,
see below.

15.
Necessary to every Government
are force, intimidation,
and apt remuneration:
subservient to
all bad governments,
and essentially necessary
to representative do., corruption
and delusion.

16.
The need and use of
them differ according to
the form of the Governmt..

17.
A government, in it's form,
is either simple or composite.

18.
A government simple in
it's form, is either, a pure
Monarchy, a do. Aristocracy,
or a do. Democracy: source
of diversity, the comparative
number of the superior rulers:
namely, one, few, or
many: between the absolute
members in the case
of the few and the many,
no determinate lines.

19.
A Government of more
than one, i.e. an aristocracy
or democracy, is either
self-acting, or acting
by representation, say
representative.

Identifier: | JB/038/143/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 38.
Date_1	1823-04-29	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-8, 8a, 9-19
Box	038	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	143	Info in main headings field	constitut. code matter discarded
Image	001	Titles	ch. 1 ruling principles / means employed by interest
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Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks	j whatman 1820
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Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1820
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