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1823. June Constitut. Code S. Public Opinion Tribunal

1.

Democratical and aristocratical
— two sections into
which the whole Public Tribunal
is, and every local
section of it is liable to be
divided. Members of the
aristocratical, the ruling
and the influential few,
enemies of the greatest number
and its happiness.

2.

Subsections of the Artistocratical
section enumerated.
See Letters to Toreno

3.

Hence, instead of a security
against misrule,
this section is author
and instrumental of do.
In a non military way,
it is to the community
what an enemy's army
in the heart of the country
would be in a military
way.
Against not by or for
these, is the security in
demand.

Good government requires
— not maximization,
but nullification
of their influence.

4.

Objection. Suppose the
greatest happiness of
this smallest number
entitled to no regard, thus
are they devoted to the destruction.

5.

Answer, no: in so far
as the interest of the few
coincides with, or is not
hostile to do. of the many
it will be protected along
with theirs: only in
so far as promoted by
sacrifice of many's interest,
will it be curbed.

6.

On no point is the interest
of the many opposite
to that of the few, except
as to the being protected
against depredation & oppression by the few.

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7.

By no exercise of depredation
or oppression
on the few could the
many fail to be equally
plundered & oppressed.

8.

But in any proportion
and with any degree
of permanence, are the
many liable to be plundered
and oppressed
by the few. Witness almost
universal practice.

9.

Between the few and
the many, no line of
demarcation can at
any point be drawn
when by and for the many
the first few had
been plundered and
oppressed, a second few
would be fastened up
on and treated in the
same manner, and so on

10.

At and by the very commencement
of such a
plan of plunderage, universal
destruction of property,
thence of subsistence,
and existence, would
take place.
For further details, see
other papers.

11.

Objection. Still, even supposing
a permanent line
of separation between them,
same interests must the
few have in common
with the many. See then
to what parts in the field
of thought and action, and
government the intercommunity
extends.

12.

Answer. In duriation &
extent, much the same
is the interest which

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the few have in common
with the many, as the
interest, which are hostile
army, having military
possession of the territory
of a political community,
has in common
with the community.

Quere this?

13.

As to wealth, many's
interest it is that it be
maximized, and kept
at disposal of the producers
and their assigns
and hindered successors.
So few's, that it be maximized,
but that, as fast
as produced, the quantity
of it at their disposal &
applied to their use, be
maximized.

14.

True, so far as regards
matter of wealth, it is
the interest of ruling few
that so much as is necessary
to the existence
of the producing many
be kept at their disposal:
because, only in proportion
as man exist, can
they produce.

15.

No so in the case of
factitious dignity. Of the
ruling few it is the interest
that there be factitious
dignity: of the subject
many, that there
be none at all.

[See the Papers on
Factitious Dignity.]

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