JB/087/125/002

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State Libels. Indirect

Misrule

From p. 5. par. 1.

A Minister, be his
conduct ever so meritorious
has no reason
to think himself
ill used injured by
any contrivance for
opening a door to
such complaints

To place an unlimited confidence in Ministers
is to place unlimited confidence in the hands
of those who are most likely to be undeserving it abuse it :
as being tempted by having in themselves greater interests to
tempt them to swerve from the line of rectitude
than any other sort of people have, and better
pretences on the plea of necessity for swerving
from it, on account in the way of defense against by reason of of the disintegrity of those many
whom they have to must deal with. It is a rule
of prudence in a private man, never without
some very particular reason without some very
particular benefit to be attained by it, by
himself or at least by some other, to put it in
the power of any one to do him a prejudice:
much less of one who it is known may find
his interest in so doing. If this be pruden a a rule is fit to
be observed by necessary caution in a private man much more is it,
[and that for the reasons that have been given,] in a sovereign.
As to the a Ministers themselves himself, the more
upright they are he is, the less they he stands in need of
such a confidence: and the less upright he is, the
more reason there certainly is why he should not
have it: and it may be said affirmed without a paradox,
that

Identifier: | JB/087/125/002 "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	125	Info in main headings field	indirect
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f29 / f30 / f31 / f32
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[gr with crown motif] propatria [britannia motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	27650
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