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Constitutional Code.
III Instructions and Rationale
Ch. IX. Ministers collectively
§ 15 Remuneration.
Factitious honor
arbitrarily conferred
No
Addend.
Ch. IX. Ministers collectively
§. Remuneration.
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2. Evil 2. By the same
means, if not despotism,
misrule, with waste,
depredation & oppression
probabilized and
promoted in inferior
degrees.
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1. By a bait in this
shape, functionaries
might be caught, in
situations in which,
in a grosser shape, the
expence of the bait, in
sufficient quantity, c<hi rend="superscript">d
not be afforded.
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2. By a Duke with £150,
000 a year, £50,000 for
self, or sinecure to
that amount for
________ might perhaps
be desired. Not so a
garter.
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Evil 3. Strength and
existence given to an
aristocratical body,
engaged in the promotion
of misrule in all
shapes, as above, by a
particular adverse to
the universal interest
1. Members of the
dignitaries so constituted.
2. These wd. be of course
those whom the patron
beheld highest in the
conjunct scales of power
and opulence.
3. Of these title & badges,
one effect wd. be, their finding
one another out the
more promptly, & by sympathy
being drawn together
the more closely.
Ch. IX. Ministers collectively.
§. Remuneration
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4. Evil 4. In effect, all
so many Lords.
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and
casual antipathy
apart, to every Lord every
other is an object of
sympathy & respect,
every non-Lord of
antipathy and contempt.
In proportion to his
opulence, every man
possesses the faculty
of oppressing those less
opulent: by this power,
that faculty would be
strengthened.
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5. Evil 5. As to the
service in question, not
augmentation, but
diminution of the aggregate
quantity.
1. Say for shortness:
bene-meritants
extra-meritants
non-meritants
male-meritants
2. Under such obligation
as this Constitution
imposes, Prime
Minister could not,
as others, avoid adding
to his non-meritant
and male-meritant
instruments and
favorites some bene-meritant
and extra-meritants.
72.
3. But the more of these,
the less in quantity and
value wd. be the regard
and respect paid to those
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§. Remuneration.
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4. Number of extra-
-meritants
in a year
say 1. Under natural
honor judicially
conferred, 8.
2. Under factitious honor
arbitrarily conferred, 4.
3. Under do. non-meritants
and male-meritants, 40.
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Note then how little
the value of the distinction
to an extra-meritant
would be
diminished by his
sharing it with his
fellows: how greatly,
by his opposites.
4. All having the
same make marks, the
extra-meritants w<hi rend="superscript">d
be confounded in
men's conceptions
with their opposites:
each man's chance
of being regarded as an
extra-meritant wd.
be lessened in the
ratio of the number
of his opposites & that
of his fellows.
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74.
Evil Corruptive and
seductive influence on
the suffrage of the Public
Opinion Tribunal by
propagating the conception
that priority in work
and merit intellectual
and moral, is as rises in
proportion to
in the seal of factitious
dignity: whereas the
opposite is nearer to the
truth.
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