JB/044/030/001

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1823. March 17
U.S.

§. 2. Reasons for the non-employment non-adoption in the several cases.

I. First as to the case of a monarch superadded to a
Legislative Assembly elected or composed of members elected
or supposed or pretended to be elected by the great body of the people.

This case has already been considered: namely under the
question why bring into action the great body of the people
in the character of sharers in the Supreme Constitutive powers.
A government in which the whole or any part of the supreme
legislative or Supreme Executive power is in the hands of a single
person has there been shown to be altogether incompatible
with good government: to be in a state of direct repugnance
to the greatest happiness principle: inconsistent with the pursuit
of the greatest happiness of the greatest number in the character
of the end of government.

A Monarch be his share of power ever so great or ever so small is a person whose interest is in a state of
perpetual and irreconciliable hostility to the universal interest
of the members of the community in which he is Monarch:
a person having a particular and sinister interest of his own
to which the interest of the greatest number is made to a vast
extent made a continual sacrifice.

II. Next as to the case of an Aristocracy whether without
a Monarch, or acting in subordination to and in conjunction with a Monarch.

Of This institution likewise it has been shown that it is not
only superfluous but positively mischievous: no less plainly repugnant
to the happiness and best interests of the greater number than
that of Monarchy is.

Identifier: | JB/044/030/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 44.
Date_1	1823-03-17	Marginal Summary Numbering	or 1 - or 2
Box	044	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	030	Info in main headings field	constitut. code us
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d5 / e1 / f17
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
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Notes public		ID Number	13815
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