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Constitutional Code.Ch. X. Defensive Force.
§. 2. Leading Principles
§. 3. Army Minister
§. 10. Remuneration
44. or 16.
Pay with Rank
9. Pay rising with the
rank. In military
service, gradation of
power, i.e. number of
subject wills, accompanies
gradation of rank.
45. or 17.
In modern pratice
in the plebeian ranks,
denominations two —
Serjeant and Corporal.
46. or 18.
In this service, the
expectation of reward
shd. be constantly
present to every idea.
Obedience and nothing but
obedience maximizes
power. Reward in the
shape of power and rank
is the natural reward,
in the shape of money
is the factitious reward.
47. or 19.
In a state where
augmentation of pay is
established, what reason
soever has place for
it's continuance — reasons
alike obvious for
abolition.
48. or 20.
In Greek and Roman
practice, difference of
pay between the priest
and the commander in
chief next to nothing
in comparison with
what it is in modern
practice.
49. or 21.
II. Officers. To these, the
same observations, as
above, to Privates.
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Ch. X. Defensive Force.
§. 2. Leading Principles
§. 3. Army Minister
§. 10. Remuneration
50. or 22.
Compens. for Wound
10. Casualty compensation
1. Privates. Compensation
for casualty different
from remuneration.
Remuneration supposes
exertions, casualty does
not. If no compensation
be provided for casualty
from exposure, ordinary
pay would be a bounty
on cowardice.
51. or 23.
Of casualties examples
are
1. Loss of a limb or organ.
2. Loss of use of do.
3. Loss of aptitude by general
health.
4. Wounds and diseases
not producing loss of
aptitude, but incurable.
5. Wounds and diseases
, curable.
6. Loss of aptitude by age
and incurable.
52. or 24.
For these casualties,
what the appropriate
compensation. For
perpetual sufferings, pensions
for life — for wounds
and diseases curable,
money at once paid.
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Pensions to Relatives
53. or 25.
Extravagant pensions to
wife and relations a bounty
on excess of population
on increase of public
burthen.
54. or 26.
II. Officers. In their case,
demand for compensation
less on account of their
greater sensibility to
to honour to the moral
sanction — at the same time
greater would be the
sum on account of
their higher degree in
the scale of opulence.
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Ch. X. Defensive Force.
§. 2. Leading Principles
§. 3. Army Minister
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Ch. X. Defensive Force.
§. 2. Leading Principles
§. 3. Army Minister
§. 10. Remuneration
Expense
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§. 10. Remuneration
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10 Sept. 1827
This Sheet belongs to
§. 10. Remuneration
Not to §. 2 Leading
Principles.
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