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1823. April 2.

Ch. 1. Ruling principles
§. 3. Obstacles to attainment
Rulers' sinister interest

37.
Channels or conduit pipes, lucrative
offices: greater the number,
greater the emolument of
each, more abundant the
matter of the depredation
exercised.

38.
In most States, authoritative
Official-Establishmt. books: in some without,
in some with mention
made of emolument in
whole or part. In these,
may be seen the matter,
the maximization of which
has in every Governmt.
but one, been the primary,
if not the sole end of
government.

39.
In a limited Monarchy,
a sharer with Monarch
in sweets of rule may, if
he regards himself as exposed
to suffering from
Monarch's misrule, be for
security, disposed to look to
people for eventual support:
and in that view, to sacrifice
more or less of
particular and sinister
interest to his share in
universal do.. The greater
in his eyes the danger,
the greater the sacrifice:
but, without or beyond
danger, no sacrifice.

40.
Consequence of the limitation.
1. In ruler's breast, by corruption,
trust-breaking,
and consequent insincerity,
depravity encreased.
Yet in people's breasts,
of misery, the quality quantity is
diminished.

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Ch. 1. Ruling principles
§. 3. Obstacles to attainment
Rulers' sinister interest

40 contind.
Cause, the fear of the
tutelary power of the
Public Opinion Tribunal
that encrease, which, in
proportion to the efficiency
of the limitation,
can not but encrease.

41.
Still, sooner or later,
but for the encreasing
force given to that tutelary
power by encrease of
intellectual light, sooner
or later, as the quantity of
the matter of corruption
encreases, the resistance
to it diminished, till
at length the effect of
the limitation vanishes,
and with or without the
former, the limited is
converted into an absolute
Monarchy. Witness
ancient Rome under the
first Emperors. England
is now in this respect
what Rome was then:
But with this difference,
that then there was not
any public press, nor now
there is one: and that, it should
it seems ultimately
irresistible.

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In a limited or mixt
Monarchy limited by a
Monarchy tutelary by every particle
of the matter of good in
the hands of the Monarchy
is matter of corruption,
operating in the part
appropriate moral aptitude
of the representatives.

Identifier: | JB/038/152/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 38.
Date_1	1823-04-02	Marginal Summary Numbering	37-41
Box	038	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	152	Info in main headings field	constitut. code i enactive part
Image	001	Titles	ch. 1 ruling principles / obstacles to attainment / rulers sinister interest
Category	marginal summary sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d3 / e2
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks	j whatman 1821
Marginals		Paper Producer	john flowerdew colls
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1821
Notes public		ID Number	11789
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