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1822 May 23
Economy &c.

Ch. False Securities for Moral Aptitude
Chambers, two or more.

23.
If greatest happiness
&c. be supposed to be
the end on every occasion
pursued, bad a
measure, the more argument
is employed against
it, the greater
the probability of its
being rejected; good the
measure, the greater the
probability of its being
carried. But factitious
delay is as favorable to
the rejection of the best
as of the worst measure,
and therefore more
likely to be employed
to bad purposes than
good ones.

24.
To the vil produced
by a bad measure,
carried by the effect of
precipitation, respect
affords a remedy. But
to evil, consisting of
the retardation of the
good effect of good
measure, there is no
remedy – no compensation.
True of a bad measure
carried by precipitation
the bad effect
continues till the
measure is repealed.
But being by supposition
so evil that had
time been allowed
it wd. have been put
aside antecedently to
experience of its bad
effects, much more surely
will it be after
its

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24 Contind.
its evil tendency
has been demonstrated
by experiences.

25.
Plan for forming a
well-grounded estimate
of the balance on the side
of good or evil from a
second chamber, taking
U.S. for example. Examine
and class the Laws
&c. passed since the Establishment
of the Legislative
body of the Union
in which, under the
name of a
second chamber is included.
Then say
1. Total introduced, so
many.
2. Whereof passed so many.
3. Negatived, so many.
4. Of those rejected, reintroduced
and passed at
a succeeding section,
so many.
5. Remain rejected
so many.
6. Of those that remain
rejected, bad in the whole
so many.
7. Of those bad in the
whole, would have been
rejected in the only chamber
had there been no
second chamber.
8. Of those rejected and
never as yet reintroduced,
would now on
maturer judgment, if
introduced pass and
remain in force
so many.

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25 contind.
Such the plan recommended
to each individual
for the settling
of his own opinion.
Balance even on
the account of aptitude,
Expence will suffice
to place the
evil on the side of
the second chamber.

26.
II. Case 2. Members of Chambers.
2 all located by a
functionary one & the same.
Note. Sufficient this to render
him Chief of the State:
possessing as to this half
of the Supreme operative
power the Supreme constitutive:
but without the
dislocative: here dislocative
power none: dislocation
wd. be effected by
death.

27.
This great functionary
being a man, to his own
private the sacrifice
of the universal interest
would the exercise of this
power be directed by him.
Hence to every measure
tending to lessen the sinister
sacrifice made in
his favour, certain wd.
be his resistance.
To such defensive power
is by the nature of the case
attached a power of taking
active and efficient
measures for consummation
of sinister sacrifice.
Temptation to each
Member for the first to receive
for self or connections
seat in this 2d. Thence
alliance tripartite for sharing
in the benefit of the
sinister sacrifice: viz
1. Locator General to Chamber 2.
2. Chamber 3. Chamber 2.
For the course by which
this would extract the
money, see Ch. below.

Identifier: | JB/038/042/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 38.
Date_1	1822-05-23	Marginal Summary Numbering	23-27
Box	038	Main Headings	economy as to office
Folio number	042	Info in main headings field	economy &c
Image	001	Titles	ch. false securities for moral aptitude / chambers two or more
Category	marginal summary sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e4
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks	[[watermarks::i&m [prince of wales feathers] 1818]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	arthur wellesley, duke of wellington
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1818
Notes public		ID Number	11679
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