JB/147/430/001

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14 March 1810
Sinecures

But as to enquiry, considered in a the most general point of
view – enquiry I mean so far as it has the state for its subject the condition
and practice of government in its several departments
all enquiry so considered in itself is good.
The object of enquiry is to obtain information: and respecting
the condition and practice of government, information can never be
too abundantly collected ever too universally diffused.

Information apart the practice of all government has a tendency
a perpetual tendency to grow worse and worse: for in
all government the ruling hands be they who they may
besides that interest which they possess in common in which the governed are sharers with
those whom they govern, have an interest of their own
which is separate from and adverse to that common interest:
and for giving effec to this their sinister interest
the ruling hands possess such a power in which
those whom they govern those whose sole portion is obedience are not sharers.

In this state of things, in so far as the body of the people
is enlightened, a general suspicion of misconduct on the
part of government has always been prevalent: a
suspicion which has no never yet in no country
has ever yet ceased to have grounds but too ample
and substantial for the support of it.

Identifier: | JB/147/430/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 147.
Date_1	1810-03-14	Marginal Summary Numbering	5-7
Box	147	Main Headings	Sinecures
Folio number	430	Info in main headings field	Sinecures
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	E3
Penner		Watermarks	TH 1806
Marginals	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Producer	Andre Morellet
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public		ID Number	49655
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