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<head>J.B. to France against Death</head> | |||
<note>§.VI. Causes of attachment<lb/> | |||
1 Sinister interest<lb/><add>as</add><gap/> | |||
1. King's.<lb/> | |||
41</note><lb/> | |||
41. But here comes a question concerning absolute Monarchs.<lb/> | |||
Possessing as he does the power of killing his subjects,<lb/> | |||
<add>any or</add> every one of them, by <add>as</add><del><gap/></del> many individual acts of <lb/> | |||
power, without need of any general law, what interest<lb/> | |||
has he in the creation or preservation of any such general<lb/> | |||
law? I answer he has his interest in it. <del>In the fi</del>rst<lb/> | |||
<del>place</del> he derives two benefits from it. In the first place he<lb/> | |||
obtains popularity: popularity by means of the power of pardoning:<lb/> | |||
<del>in propo</del> popularity in proportion to the number<lb/> | |||
of the occasions in which he exercises this beneficial power<lb/> | |||
popularity in proportion to the number of the individuals<lb/> | |||
by to whom the benefit of it is reaped. An assortment of <lb/> | |||
cruel laws ready made to his hands is therefore <add>and in this <gap/></add> in valuables<lb/> | |||
In the next place <add>as often as</add> <del>so far as</del> there happens to be<lb/> | |||
this <del><gap/></del> or that individual whom he has a fancy to kill<lb/> | |||
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1830 Nov 12
J.B. to France against Death
§.VI. Causes of attachment
1 Sinister interest
as
1. King's.
41
41. But here comes a question concerning absolute Monarchs.
Possessing as he does the power of killing his subjects,
any or every one of them, by as many individual acts of
power, without need of any general law, what interest
has he in the creation or preservation of any such general
law? I answer he has his interest in it. In the first
place he derives two benefits from it. In the first place he
obtains popularity: popularity by means of the power of pardoning:
in propo popularity in proportion to the number
of the occasions in which he exercises this beneficial power
popularity in proportion to the number of the individuals
by to whom the benefit of it is reaped. An assortment of
cruel laws ready made to his hands is therefore and in this in valuables
In the next place as often as so far as there happens to be
this or that individual whom he has a fancy to kill
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lord brougham displayed |
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jb to belgians |
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c2 / e2 / f20 / f13 |
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jeremy bentham |
street & co 1830 |
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antonio alcala galiano |
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1830 |
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