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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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