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1824. April 13
Constitutional Code.

Objection 2. Venality would thus be introduced into office

Answer. Nothing Only by indistinctness of vision could an objection
be made out of this word. venality: he he whom he it
presents itself An office is one thing; a man another: to have
to whom regard the word venality presents itself as thus employed as affording an objection, is – not a the difference
between those two objects is imperceptible knows not that those know a man from an office. Lay under the word – look at the transaction
is any difference between a man and an office. Take away
, and employ any other the objection vanishes. Of By the sort of transaction The article of the one sort
in question what a man does is to give or forego so much in any the off transaction in question the result is the direct opposite of that
to receive power in exchange for it. A man who sells . If a which is everybody means by the word. venality. By the venality the
man sold himself to another he would himself. If not to power man gives gets away: by the act this objected to, transaction, he parts with it: he parts with it, of another and gets none in return for it. If he sold himself to another he would
put himself into the power of that other. This accordingly is what, in a monarchy a man does, who being member
of a legislative body representative of a trustee for the people, accepts at
the hands of the Monarch, a lucrative office, out of which he may by the
will of the Monarch be removed. But the man, who, upon
the plan here proposed, should give money for the official situation,
would not be more in the power of any other man, than if he
had had it gratis: he would of if anything to be if there be any difference, he would be the less: in any
other mans power: for, having purchased it, he would not be quite
so likely to be put of it as if he had not given anything purchased it.
for it.

Identifier: | JB/039/107/001 "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	107	Info in main headings field	constitutional code
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c3 / c1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
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Notes public		ID Number	12114
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