JB/039/026/001

Click Here To Edit

1824. March 16
Constitutional Code

☞ J.B. to Leicester Stanhope on sending him the
copy of Legislator's Inaugural to be made use of as .

J.B. to L.S.

I am not satisfied with this draught: – were it only because there
is so much of it. My intention was and is to rewrite it
I considered it only as a and my design was to
rewrite it. I sent it to Mill with this note written upon it.
"Too long for the purpose mentioned: but perhaps it may be
"of some use in the character of a map of the field of Legislation,
in conjunction with the respective fields of service
of the several Sub-Ministers.

He returned it with the Observation following.
"Though it may be too long perhaps to be actually pronounced,
"yet a Legislator on the occasion proposed, might be required
"to say – "I have read this Declaration with all attention,
"and hold myself bound by it, in the same manner
"as if, for the purpose of binding myself I had most
"solemnly pronounced it."

The reason for making the paragraph so long-winded
was this: namely the shifting the engagements themselves
with the reasons by which they were suggested: so that
the reasons might not be discarded and put into the
background: for it in the reasons consists principally whatever
binding force they may have: of these reasons are composed
the inducements, which the people in their quality of members
of the Public Opinion Tribunal, will have for
the giving execution and effect to the engagements, by watching
over being upon the alert, and attaching marking all indications of their
displeasure every instance of non-observance.

Do what you think best with it: give it out to be translated
and published, or keep it back: No Members of the Legislature can
in their own minds like it: it ties them up so strictly.⊞
⊞ The Inaugural Declarations
for the other
head functionaries will
not need to be near so
long. Take for an example
that for a Judge
as printed in the work
on the Judiciary Establishment.

Identifier: | JB/039/026/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 39.
Date_1	1824-03-16	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	039	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	026	Info in main headings field	constitutional code
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d1 / e2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1823
Marginals		Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1823
Notes public	letter 3071, vol. 11	ID Number	12033
Box Contents