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<p>1823. March 17<lb/> | |||
<head>U.S.</head></p> | |||
<p><head>§. 2. Reasons for <del>the non-employment</del> <add>non-adoption</add> in the several cases.</head></p> | |||
<p>I. First as to the case of a monarch superadded to a<lb/> | |||
Legislative Assembly <del>elected or</del> composed of members elected<lb/> | |||
or supposed or pretended to be elected by the great body of the people.</p> | |||
<p>This case has already been considered: namely under the<lb/> | |||
question why bring into action the great body of the people<lb/> | |||
in the character of sharers in the Supreme Constitutive powers.<lb/> | |||
A government in which the <del><gap/></del> whole or any part of the supreme<lb/> | |||
legislative or Supreme Executive power is in the hands of a single<lb/> | |||
person has there been shown to be altogether incompatible<lb/> | |||
with good government: to be in a state of <del><gap/></del> direct repugnance<lb/> | |||
to the greatest happiness principle: inconsistent with the pursuit<lb/> | |||
of the greatest happiness of the greatest number in the character<lb/> | |||
of the end of government.</p> | |||
<p>A Monarch <add>be his share of power ever so great or ever so small</add> is a person whose interest is in a state of<lb/> | |||
perpetual and irreconciliable hostility to the universal interest<lb/> | |||
of the members of the community in which he is Monarch:<lb/> | |||
a person having a particular and sinister interest of his own<lb/> | |||
to which the interest of the greatest number is <del>made</del> to a vast<lb/> | |||
extent made a continual sacrifice.</p> | |||
<p>II. Next as to the case of an Aristocracy whether without<lb/> | |||
a Monarch, or acting in <add>subordination to and in</add> conjunction with a Monarch.</p> | |||
<p>Of This institution likewise it has been shown that it is not<lb/> | |||
only superfluous but positively mischievous: no less plainly repugnant<lb/> | |||
to the happiness and <add>best</add> interests of the greater number than<lb/> | |||
that of Monarchy is.</p> | |||
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1823. March 17
U.S.
§. 2. Reasons for the non-employment non-adoption in the several cases.
I. First as to the case of a monarch superadded to a
Legislative Assembly elected or composed of members elected
or supposed or pretended to be elected by the great body of the people.
This case has already been considered: namely under the
question why bring into action the great body of the people
in the character of sharers in the Supreme Constitutive powers.
A government in which the whole or any part of the supreme
legislative or Supreme Executive power is in the hands of a single
person has there been shown to be altogether incompatible
with good government: to be in a state of direct repugnance
to the greatest happiness principle: inconsistent with the pursuit
of the greatest happiness of the greatest number in the character
of the end of government.
A Monarch be his share of power ever so great or ever so small is a person whose interest is in a state of
perpetual and irreconciliable hostility to the universal interest
of the members of the community in which he is Monarch:
a person having a particular and sinister interest of his own
to which the interest of the greatest number is made to a vast
extent made a continual sacrifice.
II. Next as to the case of an Aristocracy whether without
a Monarch, or acting in subordination to and in conjunction with a Monarch.
Of This institution likewise it has been shown that it is not
only superfluous but positively mischievous: no less plainly repugnant
to the happiness and best interests of the greater number than
that of Monarchy is.
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