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1823. April 29.
Constitut. Code

Ch. Ruling principle
§. 4 Means employed by it

58.
3. Still more for every thing
given by him gratis: then
comes praise of liberality
bounty, generosity, munificence,
though nothing can
be given but through extortion
from unwilling contributors.
His case is here confounded
with that of those whose
bounty is exercised at their
own expence.

59.
By a starving beggar
sharing a penney with
another such, no praise
will be received. Known
it will not be, nor if
known, heeded.
Of a Monarch giving
£100,000 worth of books in
hope of £2,000,000 to build
a palace, praise will be
sounded in the Legislature,
and echoed wherever the
fame of such virtue
reaches.

60.
Of this power, certain and
perpetual is the effect, in
the production of breach
of representative's trust,
and consummation of the
sinister sacrifice.
Of the matter, the quantity
is of necessity continually
on the encrease.
By each war, addition to
it is made: by no place,
subtraction adequate –
sufficient without encrease,
much more with.

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Ch. Ruling principle
§. 4 Means employed by it

61.
Each day accelerates a
change: in the first instance,
to pure monarchy
or democracy, according to
circumstances – Democracy
may continue to the
end of time.
Pure Monarchy will end
in debility, productive
of conquest by a foreign
enemy, or if democracy, set
up by the Military.

62.
Plainly impossible, is abolition
or even diminution
of corruptive influence
and correspondent
effect. Of any arrangements
professed to be for this purpose,
sole effect is encrease
of the corruption, or the
mischievousness. Only
where a limited bargain
is made, can punishmt.
attach: no bargain, no limit
to the corrupt obsequiousness:
the more obsequious
I am (says the Representative
to himself,)
the more I may expect
to receive.

63.
Effect of any of these endeavours,
causing the people to
view the disease without
attempting a remedy, under
the necessarily false notion
of a desire and endeavour
int he representatives to
remedy it.

64.
Without proof of inaptitude,
moral or intellectual, by no
man can any such endeavour
be employed – moral,
if the endeavour be insincere;
intellectual if sincere.

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65.
Members whose conduct is
determined by it, not the
Supporters of the Monarch's
arrangements only, but
the opponents also.
In the matter of corruption
the interest of both parties
is the same – what the
one has in possession, the
other has in expectancy.
No more could the one
see it lessened than the
other.

66.
Small, as above, is the importance
of corruption
in an unlimited in comparison
of what it is in
a limited Monarchy: for
1. Matter, none to work upon.
Representation none.
No body without whose
concurrence, Monarch can
not govern. No gratification
can the limited Monarch
obtain with such
concurrence, but the unlimited
may without it.
The portion which the
limited Monarch is obliged
to give up to these his
instruments, unlimited
may spend on himself,
or give to favourites.

67.
Not that in unlimited
Monarchy, corruption
is destitute of influence:
it would operate as
corruption, if needed:
it contributes to delusion,
for which see
next Section.

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By expectations not
by necessity is all the mischief
done. How can
you give proof of, or set
limits to, expectations?

Identifier: | JB/038/147/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 38.
Date_1	1823-04-29	Marginal Summary Numbering	58-67
Box	038	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	147	Info in main headings field	constitut. code
Image	001	Titles	ch. ruling principles / means employed by it
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Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks	j whatman 1821
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Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1821
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