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1824. April 16
Constitutional Code. For Code perhaps and For Official &c passages.
Ch. IX Ministers collectively
§. 14 Locable who

18 April ☞ This text will be to be rewritten from the marginals
19 Feby1827. Quere whether to be employed?

§. Votation secret, why

Note ( )
( ) This secret and the open mode the one is preferable to other
according to the portion of the circumstances the Voter is placed in.

In the secret mode, the personal interest of the voter
is exempt from all check: from the on the one hand from
the action of the corruptive or say attestive and corruption of and intimidation influence exercisable by rulers and by other individuals; on the other
hand from the tutelary guardian influence of the Public Opinion Tribunal.

In the open mode probity of the the voter stands on the one hand is exposed to the seduc
attestive corruptive influence exercisable by rulers and other individuals:
on the other to the guardian influence of the Public Opinion
Tribunal.

On every occasion then on which If then his personal interest is not adverse to the interest
of the majority of the community the secret mode plainly is the preferable
one: for in this case his regard for the public interest having
nothing to antagonize with is, will of course turn how small or ever it may be suffice to turn the scale on that side.

On every occasion in which this same his personal interest it is adverse to the interest
of the majority of the community, the open mode is the
preferable one, mainly by reason of its exposing his conduct to the
guardian controul of the Public Opinion Tribunal.

If the influence exercisable in him by a man with men of power
men of opulence or both, having in interest opposite to that of the majority of the community in question is greater than the influence exercisable on him his vote by the power of the Public Opinion Tribunal,
the secret mode is that in which he ought to be made to
give his vote: in the contrary case, the open mode.

In the case of the votes given by the all members
of the Constitutive authority, regularly in the location of their representatives
in the Legislative Assembly, and eventually in the dislocation of this
or that functionary, the secret mode seems unquestionably preferable:
for in this case the interest of each constitutes the interest of
all: and, were the voting performed in the mode mode the open employed the open mode, they might
in any number through hope or fear be made in any numbers to favour the particular and
sinister interest of this or that man of opulence or influence, to the sacrifice of
each one's particular interest
as well as
of the universal interest.

Identifier: | JB/039/050/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 39.
Date_1	1824-04-16	Marginal Summary Numbering	32 or note, 1-4
Box	039	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	050	Info in main headings field	constitutional code
Image	001	Titles	note ( )
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Notes public	[[notes_public::"for code perhaps / and for official &c perhaps"; "18 april this text will be to be rewritten from the marginals"; "19 feby 1827 quere whether to be employed?" [notes in bentham's hand]]]	ID Number	12057
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