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16 Aug. 1808 B 1
Arrangements proposed
V. Responsibilities
☞ 22 May 1809. Not sent in to the Audit Office — not yet
completed. [B]
Remedial Arrangements proposed continued and concluded.
V. The Members of this judicatory to be subjected to
individual moral responsibility by checks analogous to
those which have place in the case of the Superior
Judges.
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Of what follows much
serves — not to inform
but to remind
Ex. gr. All are marked
The facts are not a few of which though no man has
any need of being informed, every man has every now and then
need of being reminded. All men for example are mortal subject to mortality there
is no to any body man: and yet there are far more who on one occasion
or another, has not had to be reminded of it.
Among the propositions
which here follow are
many which have little not more
of novelty in them than
the fingering: and which
for being this as
trite as things are, could
not on that account be
admi omitted
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Every man wishes to pursue
his own (supposed) interest
the prejudice of all
opposing do
In every situation it is the wish of every man to
the at all times on every occasion what he pleases [and as he pleases] :
to pursue his own interest permanent or momentary — to
pursue the the interest predominant interest, whatever it be of the
moment to pursue it to spite the prejudice of all opposing
interest, whether private or public
Postpiece
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[This propensity
ought not to be
railed at: the absence
of it being neither
desirable nor possible
In a situation conferring power public power it is his wish to
see and feel that power to be in as arbitrary a state
as possible: as little exposed in as slight a degree as
possible to the action of those checks by which endeavours
have been used or pretended to be used to confine the
full course of each public man within to the line the path of his respective
public duty.
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Consequently to be
as exempt as possible
from all checks
intended to confine
him to the path of
duty
[To rail at this propensity, supposing the railing sincere,
is weak in a double point of view: because the bringing about one opposite
state of things, is neither desirable practicable nor so much as desirable]
the preservation not out of the species and of each individual depends
upon it
The business of the legislator is to turn it to the best account:
and to do so, he must not be afraid to look of looking it
in the face.
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