JB/044/139/001

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Custom has been styled the Law of Fools. So far as
regards Government with as much propriety might it be
stiled the Law of Knaves, or the Law of Knaves and Fools.
It is a law in the establishment of which the initiative
function has had rulers in the character of knaves
for its functionaries: the Consummative, the people
in the character of fools.

In a Monarchy, the greatest happiness of the Monarch
is, in the opinion of the the Monarch, the sole
right & proper end of government.

In the opinion of the Monarch the greatest
happiness of the Monarch requires that the greatest happiness
of all but that one be, on every occasion, made
a sacrifice to the happiness, real or supposed, of that one.

When the legitimacy of Monarchy is endeavoured to be
supported by argument— When in support of the claim of
a Monarch to whatsoever share shape of power he happens
to be possessed of— unlimited or limited,— argument or
any thing that shall wear the appearance of
argument is employed— it resolves itself into one or other
of the three propositions following.

1. It has been the custom for the Monarch to exercise such
his power: and, in government, whatsoever is customary is
right.

2. In a Monarchy, the Monarch is the only person whose
whose happiness has any claim to regard.

3. The happiness of the people has a claim to regard. It may
even be admitted, that the greatest happiness of the community
at large is the only legitimate end of government. But, to
this admission is tacked this condition— namely, that it
be admitted on the other side that the Monarch is the
only proper judge of that which, on each occasion,
is in the highest degree contributory to the greatest
happiness of the community at large.

Identifier: | JB/044/139/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 44.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	044	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	139	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c2 / f2
Penner		Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1829
Marginals		Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1829
Notes public		ID Number	13924
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