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1823 Feb. 28
Greece. J.B.s Observations on particular Articles

It will suffice of itself to prove the impossibility, that in the
English form of government the power exercised by the King, or the
power exercised by the House of Lords should ever however had for the end
of its creation the greatest happiness of the greatest number, or so much as the
happiness of any individual other than the several sorts of person, by
whom those powers given have been and are exercised, and their several connections. It
will rid the country of both those sources of misrule and misery,
so soon as the eyes of the greatest number are sufficiently open to the only
sound principles of good government to the detection of the art and
science of government, that is to say if the supreme constitutive power being be lodged
in all the hands of all who are capable of bearing a part in the exercise of it,
instead of being engrossed by a minute fraction of that number all
almost all of them listed in the service of by a community
of corr corrupt and sinister interest.

I will rid render similar service to France, in the eyes of all Frenchmen who
can endure to listen to it at it.

It will rid the Spanish constitution of its King: and of
that vast reservoir and fountain of the stream matter of corruption
the Council of State with its forty members, all of them creatures
of the Monarch.

It will render similar service to Portugal.

It will render service even to the Constitution of the Anglo-American
United States, as matchless as it is as yet, and little short of the
summit of absolute perfection as it is. It will clear it of its
Senators: a mass of useless, and their worse than useless complication
introduced by a natural and not inconsiderable timidity, at a time
when principles were as set yet unsettled, and no sufficient stock
of experience as yet obtained: established in imitation of that which
parrots parent government, which, not without reason was universally
regarded as the best, or to speak more properly the least bad
government, that till the Anglo-American Government had
had time to manifest itself, had ever been exemplified.

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Date_1	1823-02-28	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	106	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	341	Info in main headings field	greece jb observations on particular articles
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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