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1822. May 30. (copied 3 July 1830.) Appendix False Securities indicated.

Ch. 1. Disposition of the whole mass of supreme
power, according to divers phantastic Theories.

§ i.1. Fantastic theory the first. Legitimacy.

This theory consists in the use of a particular
word— legitimacy.

In this word is tacitly involved a proposition: namely— Every
Monarchical Government is legitimate. Therein is involved
another— No Government that is not Monarchical
is legitimate.

By legitimate in so far as it has a meaning
seems to be meant— such as ought to find obedience on
the part of those whatsoever they are whom the
Monarch is disposed to treat as his subjects.

Ask why the members of the community in question
how extensive so ever it be— ask why the hundred million,
if there are so many of them, ought to suffer
themselves to be disposed of at the will and pleasure
of one man amongst them as cattle are disposed of
at the pleasure of the proprietor— the most
intelligible answer if any answer be given, the most intelligible
is custom.

In this word then is involved this proposition—
namely, Whatsoever is customary is right: whatsoever is
customary is apt, right, & proper to be done and suffered.

According to this theory, among the members of the
community suppose it the custom for all but one
to be by that one made constantly unhappy, this
state of things is apt, right, proper, legitimate.
Why? because it is customary.

Identifier: | JB/044/138/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 44.
Date_1	1822-05-30	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	044	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	138	Info in main headings field	constitutional code
Image	001	Titles	appendix / false securities indicated / ch. 1 - disposition of the whole mass of supreme power, according to divers phantastic theories
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Penner		Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1829
Marginals		Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1829
Notes public		ID Number	13923
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