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1830 Apl 26 T 17Const Code

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

I. First as to the case of a Monarch superadded to a Legislative
Assembly 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 power. A government
in which the whole or any part of the people in the
character supreme legislative or supreme Executive power is in
the hands of a single person has thus 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 & irreconcileable hostility to the universal interest
of the members of the community in which he is Monarch:
a person having a particular & sinister interest of his
own to which the interest of the greater number is 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 and but positively mischievous,
no less plainly repugnant to the happiness and best interest of
the greater number than that of Monarchy is.

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Date_1	1830-04-26	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	044	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	091	Info in main headings field	const. code
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f17
Penner		Watermarks	b&m 1829
Marginals		Paper Producer	arthur moore; richard doane
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1829
Notes public		ID Number	13876
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