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1824. April 24
Constitutional Code

The more averse a man is to the occupations attached to a situation
the less in the quantity of time he is likely to bestow upon the duties of it employ on the function
and the worse the work he is likely to make during that time. So long as for⊞ ⊞ performing or appearing
to perform the work belonging
to it he receives money
to any amount, all that
any person others the public at large can be assured
of in relation to the business
of it is – that if he has
any aversion to it which aversion
is not so strong but
has the choice of the money that has at a certain moment has been doing in a his desire
it was not so strong but
that his desire of the money
was strong enough to
get the better of it, but that
this being the case, the
greater the sum of money
which he receives along with
it, the stronger may the
aversion wherwith the occupations
of it are contemplated
by him

No sum in addition to over and above the least sum for which a person
duly qualified is willing to charge himself with the duties of
the situation affords any so constitute adds anything to the
probability of the done discharge good conduct in the exercise of the functions
thereto belonging to that same situation.

On the contrary the greater the sum the less is that probability:
because the greater the sum the more exposed is the
functionary to the temptation of engaging in pleasurable occupations
of the purely pleasurable cast instead of those by which
the functions of the office are exercised: and because the greater
his opulence is – the greater is his faculty of procuring protecters
able and willing disposed to assist him in escaping from the displeasure
of the Public Opinion Tribunal, and in bearing up against
such displeasure, as well as in from punishment in every
shape at the hands of justice.

For guarding securing the public against injury by breach of
duty on the part of public functionaries the only effectual means
are afforded by the consist in the various checks applicable and applied to
their several situations: as to which see the section headed checks
in the Chapters having relation to those same situations. The less
money and the less power a the functionary has the more strongly and effectively will
he be operated upon by all those checks.

The notion of saturating the appetite for for money, is the
appetite for power by the quantity of money or power poured in is
if sincere, among the wildest and most visionary of all imaginable
theories: the one theamong those which are the most flashy and notoriously
contradicted by universal experience. The most craving and
rapacious and insatiable of depredators are the possessors of the most
richly endowed official situations. The most indigent as well
as profuse of spendthrifts have been the most absolute of Monarchs.

Not less wild visionary and repugnant to experience is
the notion that by the like means closeness of attention or constancy of attendance are
capable of being promoted. The most indolent of idlers have also been the most
absolute of Monarchs. By of Spain and Comus of Tuscany by whose years together
with as little interrogation
as possible after years
were spent .
So much for moral aptitude.

Identifier: | JB/039/114/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 39.
Date_1	1824-04-24	Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	039	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	114	Info in main headings field	constitutional code
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Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d2 / e2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	12121
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