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1819 Aug. 17
Fallacies

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Ch. High fliers' fallacy
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As to the merits of the question as between form and form,
they turn upon the question of responsibility — effectual responsibility —
on the part of public functionaries. But, when, on the part of
the persons, bearing the name and acting in the character of representatives
of the people, there is no real and effectual responsibility
as towards the people their normal constituents whose representatives they are said to be, all other responsibility
(need it be said?) is but a name, and the pretence of keeping it a fact
a melancholy farce (a)

Note (a)

In the event of its being deemed expedient, the effect of a communication
to the effect in question might be more easily done away in and by
the form actually pursued, than in by the form which
according to his Lordship ought to have been pursued: for, to
have made a Lord Lieutenant with his Privy Council at his
back resign or retract would have made more sensation
than the placing of the Lord Lieutenant's Secretary alone in
the same predicament. It was the interest of the Ministry as such
that every thing done shou on the occasion of this and every thing that
was done by them this difficulty and trouble should be as small
as possible: it was the interest of his Lordship, in his character
of leader of Opposition than on every such occasion their difficulty
and trouble should be as great as possible: since it is
by the magnitude of the mass of difficulty and trouble that
general resignations when they are produced are produced.

In either case it is form against form both cases it is a question between form and form: and
as to the people and their interest, which it will was that was the
form employed, could make no difference worth mentioning. Governed
by an interest opposite on every occasion to the interest of the people, the
will of the Monarch is the will that would have determined
the matter in all cases: and as to whether the instruments employed
in the giving effect to that will were whether they were a Lord Lieutenant's Secretary
or a Lord Lieutenant himself with a set of sub-instruments composing
his Privy Council, made to the people not any the smallest difference. I
difference

Identifier: | JB/104/298/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 104.
Date_1	1819-08-17	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	104	Main Headings	fallacies
Folio number	298	Info in main headings field	fallacies
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c6
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::i&m [with prince of wales feathers above] 1818]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	arthur wellesley, duke of wellington
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1818
Notes public		ID Number	34269
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