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1824. April 13
Constitutional Code.

8. If instead of money power, the benefit which the rejection would the rejection would in proposed to be conferred by the rejection
the comparatively small number in question the rejection confer were composed of money alone on imposed on the comparatively
small number in question at the expence of all – were composed of
money, the inequality and injustice of it would be manifest to all eyes.
be manifest. The tax which in case of the rejection in this case would
be necessary to replace come instead of the saving, call it for example
£200,000 a year. What could anyone find to say
on behalf of a tax to any such amount, imposed for no other purpose
that to raise a sum to be distributed a than that of distributing the produce of it
among a certain set of candidates for office?

9. Suppose no saving then indeed the objection would be
not only reasonable but conclusive. But the saving is of the
very essence of the measure and inseparable from it.

9. So would above that of the pecuniary saving, in the sacrifice 9. The saving (supposed) rejected, in addition to the sacrifice in money
which in letters in this next most opulent class into to participate forget not note the sacrifice in aptitude.
with the more opulent class, or that of the sacrifice in the
shape of aptitude. Proportioned, as above, to the money they
give for the situation, is the probative force of the evidence which
given by which the more opulent class give of their relish for the occupations.
Let in those who will give nothing for it those same occupations, nor
will enter upon it them unless the emolument remains unreduced.
You let in a set of men to every one of whom the occupation
may be an object of aversion, the correspondent repulsion
being but just barely surmounted by the attraction produced by
the relief to indigence.

Identifier: | JB/039/106/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 39.
Date_1	1824-04-13	Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	039	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	106	Info in main headings field	constitutional code
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1824
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1824
Notes public		ID Number	12113
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