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1824. August 25.
Contitutional CodeCh. IV. Sovereignty in whom

Ch. IV. Sovereignty, in whom.

Whatsoever be the powers
proposed to be exercised
by them, this proof of
moral aptitude, applies as
much to one such power
as to another. Each will
always wish to serve
all others, so far as by so
doing, he will serve himself:
and by maximizing
equality, each will serve
himself, in so far as the
others will willingly
assist him.

II. Monarch morally inapt.
II. Monarch's case.
What, as above, every man
desires and endeavors to
do, namely, place at his
own disposal all the
matter of subsistence
and abundance, and
all the means of security,
the Monarch, by the
supposition, has the
power to do: so therefore,
in so far as the nature
of men & things renders
it possible, he accordingly
will always do: &
this, at the expence of
the subsistence, abundance
and security of
all others: and to the
destruction of all Equality
as between those others
and himself.

The abundance and
security of all others
he will moreover
diminish for the augmentation
of the felicity of
all, by the augmentation
of whose felicity, his
own is any way encreased.
He

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Date_1	1824-08-25	Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
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