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1823. April 28.
Constitut. Code. Matter discarded

Ch. Ruling principle
§. 3 Objection Rulers interest

1.
To every member, two
opposite interests.
1. his share in the universal.
2. the interest particular
to him and a comparatively
small number
of associates.

2.
In the ordinary state of
things, greatest in value,
will be the particular
interest: in his eyes at
least, only in some extraordinary
do., will the
value of the social do.
predominate.
Hence, to the extent of
competition, the social
will be sacrificed to
the self-regarding do..

3.
Proportioned to his share
of power, will be the facility
of the sinister
sacrifice of the less to
the more influential
interest.

4.
In every community,
the sole end a functionary,
as such, ought
to pursue, greatest happiness
of all, or, in so
far as competition has
place, of greatest number.

5.
But in every do., end
actually or preferably
pursued by rulers, is their
own greatest happiness,
or what they expect to
find such: to the pursuit
of this particular,
will be sacrificed the
do. of the all-comprehensive,
end. This sacrifice call the
sinister sacrifice.

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6.
So as to specific end.
What the universal
interest requires is,
that of these instruments
of felicity, the
mass be maximized:
that, between share &
share, there be as little
difference as there can
be, consistently, with security
in all shapes;
and that as to security,
as against rulers, exposed
as they are on every
occasion to be irresistible
enemies to all non-rulers,
it be a maximum.
But rulers interest it is
that, against themselves,
there be no security:
that of subsistence and
abundance, their share
be a maximum, no
matter how small the
share left to the rest:
that thence, as against
depredation & oppression,
by them at the expence
of the rest, no security
have place.

7.
Example above of the
degrees in which these
objects of theirs may be,
and are, accomplished.
Given to a Monarch, subsistence
& abundance,
sufficient for subsistence
of from 10,000 to 100,000
productive hands from
which it is extorted: for
those whose subsistence
and abundance is thus destroyed, extorted,
thence security destroyed,
redress impossible.

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8.
By rulers, to objects of general
desire & pursuit,
are added others, peculiar
to themselves.
Objects of general desire
and pursuit, are –
1. Money: i.e. matter of
subsistence & abundance.
2. Power, on a domestic
scale.
3. Reputation, natural –
i.e. proportioned to good
conduct.

9.
Added by rulers, by virtue
of their situation,
4. Factitious honor and
dignity, producing, at the
expence of all others, reputation,
independent
of good conduct.
5. Vengeance, at the expence
of those by whom
their will is resisted or
conduct disapproved.
6. At the expence of official
duty, ease, in so
far as compatible with
the pursuit of those other
objects, and of pleasure
in all other shapes.

10.
Official appropriate aptitude
has been brought
to view. Of the sinister
interest, one effect is the
diminution of it in all
it's branches: Universal
interest requires that it
be a maximum:
this sinister, that it be
a minimum.

Identifier: | JB/038/149/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 38.
Date_1	1823-04-28	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-10
Box	038	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	149	Info in main headings field	constitut. code matter discarded
Image	001	Titles	ch. 1 ruling principles / obstacle rulers interest
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