JB/060/103/001

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1822 Decr 28

J.B. to Boyer, President of Haiti

Jeremy Bentham to Pierre Jean Pierre Boyer, President
of the Republic of Haiti.

Sir

Of the individual, who is thus taking the
liberty of addressing you, the accompanying printed paper,
may by means of the Testimonials contained in
it, afford you some conception.

It consists of an offer, for the framing of a body
of laws, in which will be united those features characteristics
as yet distinguishable characteristics, no one of which hath as yet been exemplified in the laws
of any nation country. 1. The design of it embraces and comprehends
the whole field of legislation:
in the design of it 2. It will has throughout for its object thereof
or end view, the greatest happiness of the greatest number;
namely of the individuals of which the community in question
is composed; the service to which in profession at least the Spanish and
Portuguese constitutions have been directed: 3: In pursuit in pursuance
of this end any attached to each individual arrangement contained
in them will have for the justification is an indication of the consideration by which in the character the explanation
an indication of the in which it of reasons it has been suggested represented as being conducive to that same end and in which explanation as well as the
justification of it
will be to be found.
provided if the considerations by which
it has been presented to as being
to that In
course of the and up on this place a body of laws for this or that nation, the author will keep constantly
in view those distinctive circumstances of time and
place and time by which are peculiar to different nations, from
those which in are the same for all. + and of
or at any rate in all ones. To characterize it
by the shortest description possible, the proposed work may be
termed an all comprehensive and rationalised Code, adapted
grounded to the principle of greatest happiness of the greatest
number.
or still more shortly
on the greatest happiness
principle, and
adapted in the instance
of each nation, for the
use of which it shall have
been designed, adapted
to the particular circumstances of that particular
nation as well as to those circumstances which belong to that individual in common with all other nations.

Identifier: | JB/060/103/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 60.
Date_1	1822-12-28	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	060	Main Headings	rid yourselves of ultramaria
Folio number	103	Info in main headings field	jb to boyer, president of haiti
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d1 / e1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman 1821
Marginals		Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1821
Notes public	draft of letter 2938, vol. 11	ID Number	19661
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