JB/044/060/001

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1823. May 27
U.S.

On the occasion in question, of this matchless seat of
good government and felicity, so felicitous was the position,
that the ruling and influential few found could not but see
in the state of mind that had place on the part of
the greatest number community in question the impossibility of avoiding to look for
the object of their operation any other than this happiness what should appear at least to the few the interest
of that same greatest number community: the impossibility of making
what should be regarded by the greatest number as a sacrifice
made of their interest to the particular interest of those
same rulers.

Thus it was that for carrying on the ordinary business of legislation government
were chosen for the as well for the legislative as for the
legislative executive department such men, as, by those in whose
obedience their power depended were regarded as presenting
the favorable prospect of their executing fulfilling to the best of their
judgment and ability this important all important trust.

Thus then was established silent war in the eyes of the greater
number of those by whom any attention was paid to the subject
the best constituted legislative, the best composed constituted executive and
these from time to time constituted by the best composed Constitutive.

Still however confidence was not entire. Surpassing
all men – surpassing them by a vast interval in the knowledge
of human nature, seeing as well as feeling in every branch of the perceptive faculty
the unchangeable predominance of self-regard in human nature, they feared
even in the instance of their own of their own desire to carry this
confidence too far. Oh yes for all points of ordinary importance
they the necessary trust in them might be reposed: but some parts
there were, in relation to which they, so of such transcendent importance
that in relation to these even those men of their first choice
could not in prudence be entrusted.

Identifier: | JB/044/060/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 44.
Date_1	1823-05-27	Marginal Summary Numbering	5-9
Box	044	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	060	Info in main headings field	constitut. code us
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c2 / f47
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1822
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1822
Notes public		ID Number	13845
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