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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 event in valuable
inheritance to him: the more cruel the more valuable.
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
of it also happens to this individual to be in any of the
cases in which he comes within the grasp of a general
law to which punishment in this shape is attached Monarch
may in this case obtain the gratification object of
his desire without subjecting himself to the level of the unpopularity which would be apt to
fall upon him in the other case

Identifier: | JB/023/125/002"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 23.
Date_1	1830-12-02	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	023	Main Headings	lord brougham displayed
Folio number	125	Info in main headings field	jb to belgians
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c2 / e2 / f20 / f13
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	street & co 1830
Marginals		Paper Producer	antonio alcala galiano
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1830
Notes public		ID Number	7996
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