JB/039/010/001

Click Here To Edit

33. On the occasion of the distribution made, of a mass
of burthens delinquecy either is, or is not in question: is not -
as where it is for defraying the expense of government that
the burthens are imposed.

34 A burthen imposed on the occasion of delinquency is
imposed either for the purpose of its operating in the way
of punishment or for the purpose of conferring a correspondent
benefit on some other person or persons in compensation for
damage sustained: sustained namely in consequence of the delinquency.

35. Correspondent to the evil produced by inequality in
the case of collation, is the evil produced by it in the case of
Ablation: — ablation made of a mass of the external instruments
of felicity in any shape and in particular in the shape
of wealth. Other circumstances the same the smaller the mass
a man professes of the instruments of felicity in this shape, the
greater is the loss of felicity produced in his instance by the ablation
of any given mass of them. By the ablation of fifty pound
more felicity will be abstracted from the breast of a man who has
but one hundred pound for his whole property than from the
breast of one who has two hundred pounds: much more would
it, if instead of the hundred pound, he had but that same
fifty pound.

36 II So much for felicity considered as the product of
Government. Now as to infelicity, considered as the expence
by means of which that same felicity is produced.maximization
was the object in regard to the desired product: minimization
is the object in regard to the expense. Now as to the
elements of that same expense

37. The Expense is evil produced either for the exclusion
of greater evil or for the production of more than equivalent good

Identifier: | JB/039/010/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 39.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	039	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	010	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e10
Penner	richard doane	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	12017
Box Contents