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Leading Principles Of a Constitutional Code for any State.

S.1 Ends aimed at

1. This Constitution has for its general end in view the greatest happiness of the greatest number: a) namely of the members of this political State: in other words the promoting or advancement of their interests. By the universal interest, understand the aggregate of those same interests. This is the all-comprehensive end to the accomplishment of which the several arrangements contained in the ensuing Code, are all of them directed.

2. Government can not be excessed without coercion; nor coercion without producing unhappiness. Of the happiness produced by Government, the net amount will be - what remains of the happiness deduction made of the unhappiness.

3. Of the unhappiness thus produced, is composed in the account of happiness, the expense of Government. Of this happiness produced by Government, the gross amount being given the net amount will be inversely as this expense.

Note:

a) If the nature of the cases admitted ---- of any such result, the endeavour of this Constitution would be - on each occasion to imagining the felicity of everyone, of the individuals of whose interest, the universal interest is composed: on which supposition, the greatest happiness of all not of the greatest number only would be the end aimed at.

But such universality is not possible For neither in the augmentation given to the gross amount of felicity can all the individuals in question ever be included, nor can the infelicity in which the expense consists, he so disposed of, as to be borne in equal amount by all: in particular such part of that same expense, as consists in the suffering produced by punishment.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	039	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	001	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles	leading principles of a constitutional code for any state
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e1
Penner	richard doane	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1822
Marginals		Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1822
Notes public		ID Number	12008
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