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1826. Sept. 26
Constitutional Code. Ch. IX. §. 17 Supplement Copied and Copy corrected.

Instructional

Art. or 1 Under what form of government, if
any, absolutely and comparatively considered, can acceptance
in any and what degree
For the conjunct system
of intellectual and pecuniary competition as preparatory
to the exercise of locative power with relation to official situations
for this system or, any and what parts of it, can under what form of government, if under any, can absolutely and comparatively considered can acceptance
be looked for as more or less probable? In answer to this
question, comply any or few observed
or not being altogether devoid of use?

Instructional and Expositive

Art. or 2. Pure Monarchy, mixed Monarchy
representative Democracy – these are under one or other of these
heads may be ranged all the several governments to which there
can be any need of bestowing a any separate consideration. Of
pure aristocracy, indeed some examples may appear presented by
the Swiss confederacy and the Proprietorship of British India but, what applies
to those those cases will be sufficiently discernible in which is said or
relation in what
that which will be seen in the subject of mixt Monarchy.

Instructional.

Art. or 3. For an the principal and most instructive example of a mixt Monarchy, take the
form of government established, with the correspondent practice of government
pursued, in England. to speak speaking of it under the appellation of a As for a constitution, speaking of it under that name
constitution would be use alone of to misusing words: is confounding
fiction with realities, a discourse of which the baleful effects are
felt everywhere, while the words are nowhere. The Anglo
American Constitution having a determined assemblage of words belonging
to it, expressive of the work of a determinate set of authors is the product of Statute law the only really existing law. Taken in the aggregate, What is called
the English Constitution, having no determinate ones words belonging to it, nor avowed
author or set of authors is not a non-entity, an interfiction,
the produce of the fiction called Common Law: a that spurious sort of law
disowned by its own makers, but not the less effectively employed by them in
the production of misery to others
and profit to themselves.


Identifier: | JB/039/226/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 39.

Date_1

1826-09-26

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

039

Main Headings

constitutional code

Folio number

226

Info in main headings field

const. code ch. ix supplement

Image

001

Titles

instructional / instructional and expositive / instructional

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

c1 / e1

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

Marginals

Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

12233

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