JB/044/054/002

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1823. May 4.

Thus much as to the all comprehensive end of good government
in so far as it is good. As to the several specific ends of good government
the means for compassing them would not here be in
their place. For description of them would will be seen found to be
in great measure different according to the differences
between the respective ends.

Of a Constitutional Code the characteristic peculiar end as
above observed is the affording to the people at large security
against hostility at the hands on the part of their Agents for the
affairs of government: hostility on the part of those antisocial
and enemies who under every sort of Constitution other
than such an one as here proposed and the one here in
question are alike irresistible and .

☞ Quere whether to insert this paragraph?

Opposite in every community to the interests of
the many, are as above observed the interests of the ruling and otherwise influential
few.⊞ ⊞ By this particular
and sinister interest,
to in so far as the
opposition is
regarded as having
place To the measures most beneficial to the only right and proper interest
– the universal interest – will of course by this particular and sinister
interest will of course in all places, at all times, and
on all occasions, be opposed all such obstacles as it is in
their its power to oppose. In the composition of this Code
the whole mass of those Codes has of course obstacles has of course for the purpose of overcoming surmounting them, been necessarily
and continually in view. A recapitulatory
is review of them may perhaps follow. But in this place
to endeavour to bring them to view there could not be nothing could be said of them in detail,
brought to view without anticipating, and enclosing in a preliminary
sketch, the a large portion of the matter propositions belonging to the
body of the works itself.

Identifier: | JB/044/054/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 44.
Date_1	1824-10-10	Marginal Summary Numbering	10-11
Box	044	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	054	Info in main headings field	constitutional code us
Image	002	Titles	rationale
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	a41 / d21 / e17
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	13839
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