★ Keep up to date with the latest news - subscribe to the Transcribe Bentham newsletter; Find a new page to transcribe in our list of Untranscribed Manuscripts
1820 July 10 1822 Aug. 5
Corruptive influence
34 or 1.
Sole defensible end of
Government, greatest
happiness of greatest number.
35 or 2.
In every human breast,
on every political occasion,
regard for the
interest of the predominte
over do. for all
besides: self regard over
social regard.
36 or 3.
If, on any occasion,
social, prevails over self
regard, it is on a domestic,
or some such narrow scale: not on
a scale commensurate
to the whole community:
much less on
a scale commensurate
with all mankind.
37 or 4.
Consequence, (political
arrangements apart)
of each individual
the constant endeavour
will be – to condense,
into his own
person, the maximum
of happiness, how
great soever the defalcation
from the happiness
of others.
38 or 5.
Thence, to collect within
his grasp the maximum
of the aggregate
of the external
instrument of felicity.
---page break---
Corruptive influence
39 or 6.
Obligations (political.)
Of ∞ functionary
being condusive to the
universal happiness
in the highest degree
saving the care he may
be allowed of his own.
40 or 7.
To obligation and obligations
are synonymous
duty and duties.
41 or 8.
Of every scheme of Government,
in so far as directed
to the above end, the endeavour
to bring each man's
interest into the exactest
possible coincidence
with such his duty.
42 or 9.
The above being the only
legitimate end, to each
functionary will belong
his duties, viz –
1. duty of the man.
2. duty of the functionary.
43 or 10.
Every functionary is as
such, a trustee for
1. in respect of every service
he engages to perform.
2. in respect of every power,
a trustee or agent.
3. in respect of appointment,
if by a delegate,
deputy, Representative.
44 or 11.
Correspondent relation
1. Servant.
2. Principal.
3. Electors.
4. Constituents.
---page break---
Corruptive influence
45 or 12.
Arrangements for making
duty interest in the case
of functionaries as trustees –
1. Trustee removable by
his principals.
2. To principals power
of appointment: viz
when by Election, according
to the four cardinal
points: viz, secresy &c.
3. Trustees, eventually punishable.
4. Trustees eventually
rewardable.
5. Trustees secured against
sinistrously applicable
coercive powers: particularly
do. employable to
secure him against arrangements
for prevention
of breach of trust.
6. Trustees secured against
corruptive influence.
7. The trust-power shared
among many, i-e
among the majority of
them.
46 or 13.
Of Nos. 1 and 2, No. 1,
(removable) though second
in twin to No. 2 (appointment)
is first in
importance.
47 or 14.
In so far as applicable
these two are the most
eligile: in application
most direct, in effect,
most certain: most simple,
obvious, economical,
unexceptionable.
Identifier: | JB/106/261/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 106.
|
|||
---|---|---|---|
1820-07-10 |
34 or 1 - 47 or 14 |
||
106 |
constitutional code |
||
261 |
constitut. code emancipation spanish rid yourselves |
||
001 |
corruptive influence |
||
marginal summary sheet |
1 |
||
recto |
d4 / e1 |
||
john flowerdew colls |
|||
34849 |
|||