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1824. April 28.
Constitutional Code.

Ch. Ministers Collectively.
§. Remuneration.

or 18. or 1.
Art. or 18. or 1. Inconsistent with the Principles
of the Constitution
as to is all purely factitious
honor or dignity
arbitrarily conferred: by
in particular by titles and
badges arbitrarily conferred:
Art or 19. or 2.
Purely factitious is
all honor arbitrarily conferred
as all by titles attached to the
name
worn by the person,
viz. without indication proof judicial
of individual extraordinary service
performance by the individual: still more if
without indication of do.

or 20. or 3.
Art. or 20. or 3.
Examples of titles attached
to names,
1. Prince.
2. Arch-duke.
3. Duke.
4. Marquis.
5. Earl or Count.
6. Viscount.
7. Baron.
8. Baronet.
9. Knight.

or 21. or 4.
Art. or 21. or 4.
Examples of symbols
of dignity worn by a
person.
1. Starts
2. Crosses.
3. Ribbons.
4. Garters.

or 22. or 5.
1
Art. or 22. or 5.
Evils produced by this
factitious honour thus
conferred –⊞
⊞ add 3 Novr 1824.
Evil 1. A continual Diminution
of the aggregate mass of
happiness.
2. Taken together Those who have it
not lose more by the
depression, than those who
have it given by the exultation:
they the lines are the million
the others the picture no more
than the hundred.
3 Inequality in wealth
is necessary to the existence
of society: also the less
prejudice and purity
the better.
4. So, in power.
5. In its factitious
deputy, as necessity
no use, for much
evil – the evil power.

2
1. Diminution of the
aggregate mass & value
of extraordinary
public service.

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Evil. 1 continued:
Principles.
3
Suppose no factitious
honor, only to those by
whom extraordinary
service to the public
had been supposed
done, would general
respect & regard be paid.
Add factitious honor,
the tribute is paid to
those by none of
whom, unless by accident,
any such service
has been rendered.

4.
Factitious honor supposed
a maker, whose
favor is the fountain
of the stream. Only to those
by whom his own interest,
self regarding
or sympathetic, is promoted,
will the efficient
causes of regard
and respect be paid
the magnets by which
they are attracted – be
given: to his living instruments
or favorites:
for service rendered
to him or them.

5
2. Evil 2. Production
of positive evil to an
indefinite amount:
in quality, infinitely
diversified: in quantity
boundless: namely
all evil to the production
of which, the
patron is capable of
being led by the pursuit
of his separate sinister
interest.
In

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§. Remuneration.

Evil 2 continued
6
In this pursuit,
all persons desirous
of obtaining one of
these magnets by
which general regard
and respect is
attracted, will be
ready assistants:
how great soever the
detriment to universal
interest.

7
3. Evil 3. Lessening the
efficiency of natural
honor in the production
or extra-public
service: viz.
1. By turning ambition
aside, from the
pursuit of natural
honor thro' extra-public
service, to
do. of this cheaper
means of purchasg.
regard and respect –
thence, lessening the
number of those endeavouring
to render
it.

8.
2. By lessening the
value of the regard
and respect, in the
eyes of bidders, bidding
for it by extra-public
service: viz.
1. by the spectacle of
greater do. – 2. by the
multitude of the
sharers in the
profit.

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Date_1	1824-04-28	Marginal Summary Numbering	[[marginal_summary_numbering::or 22 or 5 [or] 1, 2-8]]
Box	038	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	229	Info in main headings field	constitutional code
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Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1822
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