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April 1809
Press
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Ends of Kings & Ministers
(say) pursuing
separate interest
sans disturbance.
p.1
2.
Sinister and separate
interest of rulers its
object –
1. Money
2. Power at home
3. Power abroad
4. Revenge against opponents.
3.
Do. interest of chiefs
so far as distinct from
do. of subordinates
4.
Do. Interest of subordinates
as different from
do. of chiefs. p..1
5.
Interest of people as
against rulers.
1. Money no more than
necessary.
2. Power at home neither
more nor less than
necessary to best government.
3. Power abroad except
what is needful to
defence, none.
4. Revenge, no pain
created on purpose.
p.2.
6
Government bad in
so far as self-regarding
interest is pursued by
Rulers at the expence
of their
7.
In respect of self-regarding
interest every
ruler has an interest
in misgovernment –
1. Cause of misgovernmt
improbity or self-regarding
interest.
p.2
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2. Cause – unskilful
pursuit of social
interest – unskilfulness
p 2
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Whether the misgovernment
has for
its cause iprobity
or unskilfulness, slef
regarding interest prescribes
the suppression
of all complaints &
murmurs – thence
of all facts & arguments
tending to give birth
to them. p.4
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Ch. General corruption
Judges have a per centage
upon misery of
their own making manufacture.
Judges the what
the best its service
Command or in
purely in comparison
of the law
offices.
Commands mischief
tainted in his and those
in law
offices rather at the
core
Commanders corrupt
by accident and as
said without connivance
on the part of the chief
Law office rather at
the core, and on
the part of the chief
connivance an improper
term, as not being
sufficiently expressive.
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