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1823. March 1.
Greece.

On the occasion of the warnings herein above given, the governments
chosen for examples have been the only good one, and may
the bad A questionable of government that our one of the least bad that could be found found. Against those which
have place in Russia, Austria and Prussia all warning would
to the Greeks on the present occasion have been needless and therefore useless. The
only forms of government (against which any such warning
would have been presented a chance of being useful are those bad forms that have
some good in them, and that one good form which has
some bad in it. Among the bad forms which have some
good in them have been mentioned the Spanish, the
Portuguese and the English: the one good form, that has a
small sprinkling of bad in it is that of the Anglo-American
United States.

As to what So far as concerns the English Government (for
Constitutional Code and therefore Constitution, it has
none) the books against which it may be of use that the
Greeks should have warning are Montesquieu, Blackstone
and Dr l': each of these, the colouring of that pretended Constitution, the sort of colouring given to it
considered, the several descriptions given in those several works may be termed the romance. of that Constitution no
one of them the . On the in one point they are a;;Tacitly or expressly, one supposition
agreed pervades them all, namely that in the formation of the government in question the greatest happiness of the greatest
number was the end really in view: the greatest happiness of
those over whom the are examined and not the greatest
happiness of those by whom the power was possessed and is
exercised: and of the perfect a sort of fact, by the assumption of which, they assumed that
which neither ever has bebeen, nor, consistently with the
existence of the species, ever could have being been.⊞ ⊞ One only state of
things is there in
which it ever has
been or ever can be
true: and that is
the state of things in
which without material
difference the persons
by whom and the
persons over whom
the power is exercised
are the same.

For greatest happiness of the greatest number more
were be the end in view of government in any other
that in short the end person the
is was the same or at least not in as their own that some
made.

Identifier: | JB/106/354/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 106.
Date_1	1823-03-01	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	106	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	354	Info in main headings field	greece
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f28
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman 1820
Marginals		Paper Producer	admiral pavel chichagov
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1820
Notes public		ID Number	34942
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