JB/087/124/003

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Indirect

Misrule

In absolute monarchies the freedom preserving of
this channel of communication as free and unclogged
as possible is to both parties of the utmost consequence.
To the subject for otherwise he is a slave lies at the
mercy of those whose interests may be in opposition
to his welfare: to the sovereign: for how else is
he sovereign, or how else indeed is he so much as
free?

By refusing to hear the voice of the people,
of the mob, of the populace, if such it be his
pleasure to have them called, or of any individual
of that populace, far from manifesting confirming he
in effect diminishes his own power. He disables
himself from doing taking any of those eligible agreeable or
useful measures which he might have found motives seen reason
to take for taking had he permitted himself or rather
been permitted to receive the information which it
is the effect of such refusal to exclude. He from that
moment loses all power of self-direction, and becomes
a mere puppet in the hands of the ministers who [those who call
themselves his servants are about his person. He may fancy that he determines
for himself, he may feel as if did so,
and that may satisfy him: but it is certain that
this can never be the case, but that it is always
they

Identifier: | JB/087/124/003 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 87.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	087	Main Headings	indirect legislation
Folio number	124	Info in main headings field	indirect
Image	003	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f25 / f26 / f27 / f28
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	27649
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