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1823. March 9
Constitut. Code. III. Reason-giving

☞ Too diffuse – Rewrite

Objection to greatest number in the portion article of moral or intellectual
know that its designation proposes all or acts
Intellectual in the least but the of the
great is supposed his
Proof of Aptitude for choosing gov apt functionaries by experience U.S.
To choose to be governed by a Monarch rather than in U.S. is to choose to be
governed by a madman rather than to enjoy the happiness enjoyed – U.S.

Objection. On the score of moral aptitude to the and choice of the description of person in question as being untenable.

Objection. By the system which lodges the sovereign power
in the hands of all the members of the community or in the
hands of those who are regarded as having the same interests are regarded
as having the same disposition and will it is lodged in
the hands of those who each and every one of them, or without any
such number of exceptions as to this purpose and have a
claim be required prefer prefers his own greatest happiness to
that of all the others put together. Accordingly this is the very
point position contended for in your dissertation on the universality
and necessity of self preference in the conduct of human affairs.

Answer. True but in the first place in by this self preference
there is nothing that prevents the will of all from having
fo actually for its object of pursuit, the greatest happiness of
the greatest number nor from the being actually and constantly
engaged in that pursuit. True it may be admitted is that they
are every one of them actuated by the desire of contributing
each of them his utmost to his own greatest happiness
at the expence in so far as competition has place, of the
greatest happiness of all the rest. But there are two sorts of
courses whereby each individual contributes his utmost
to his own greatest happiness: one in which he experiences
obstruction from all the rest; the othe and to this belong
all those acts of endeavours all those endeavours after his
own happiness in the case where if attained it would be attained
at the expence of the happiness of others: and in the
path of his course he finds opponents in all the rest: the other another is that
in which though to which belong those acts by which though no diminution addition to
no addition to diminution the happiness of any one is produced
yet no defalcation from any such happiness is thought by them to be produced by it: and
with reference to this class
of acts though he may
find perhaps no supporters,
he however finds
no opponents anywhere.

Identifier: | JB/037/111/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 37.
Date_1	1823-03-09	Marginal Summary Numbering	11 or 1 - 12 or 2
Box	037	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	111	Info in main headings field	constitut. code iii reason-giving
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d5 / e5
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman 1819
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	john flowerdew colls
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public	[[notes_public::"too diffuse - rewrite" [note in bentham's hand]]]	ID Number	11326
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