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Misrule

instance embezzlement and peculation.

These are the disadvantages of a quick change. The
disadvantages is that it takes a man some time to
make himself master of the business of his office: This
inconvenience during which time the business affairs may suffer
from his ignorance. This inconvenience is palliated
by continuing law and continuing the institution of subordinates, who
continuing unchanged carry on the thread of affairs
without interruption. What you gain you gain by diminishing curtailing
a power that may be adverse: what you risk is the
diminishing knowledge.

The danger is the greater The more extensive the
ruler's powers &
The arrangement should be
permanent, to avoid umbrage
of individuals: and it should be
permanent and inviolably
adhered to adhered to, especially
where the guarding against revolt
is any part of the object of danger:
it if practised enforced only in
particular instances, in which
it is looked upon as necessary,
it will be apt may chance to invite
the evil which it was
intended to prevent.
the greater the more greater more
extensive are the powers of the governor, and the greater the
interruptions communications are to the communication is between this province in question
and the seat of empire.

The Vice-Roys of Peru and Mexico are seldom
continued in their governments beyond three
years. The ordinary term of a Lord Lieutenant of
Ireland is the same.(a)

(a) I do not mean to say that
in this case the adherence to
the established custom for it
is nothing more has the in
every individual instance the
observance of this policy for
its cause: I only mean,
that if there be any reasons
for this custom at present
subsisting they are of the
number of those that have
been mentioned.

Under the unsettled and imperfect constitution
of the Roman empire the necessity of this policy was
felt at every period of its history.

The danger of a governor's setting up for himself
is a danger that can take scarcely have place in any but a very
imperfect and unsettled government. In [the time of]
Among the Romans Empire from the first days of that empire to the last
it was always co in full force: and the policy here
in question was all along employ'd to guard against it:
though either from the violence of the disease weakness of the constitution, or from the
want

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	087	Main Headings	indirect legislation
Folio number	104	Info in main headings field	indirect
Image	003	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f9 / f10 / f11 / f12
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]
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Notes public		ID Number	27629
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