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1822 June 29.
Constitutional Code
2°
Ch. Factitious dignity exposed.
17.
Subjects of deception are
1.  Existence of the supposed service.
2.  Magnitude of &
3.  Need of reward for producing it.
4.  Quantity of reward needed.
By greatest happiness 
principle, remedies 
are here afforded, 
remedies such as have 
never been afforded 
under Monarchy.
18.
Notandums.  Sole service 
to which such 
extraordinary reward 
can apply be applied, 
extraordinary service 
- viz.  1.  Service 
rendered to others by 
individuals at large 
not under obligation 
as to &do.
2.  Service rendered by 
functionary to public, 
over and above what 
by office he was under 
obligation to render.
19.
True, cases exist
where to preserve requisite
extra service,
reward is needed in
more substantial and
universally acceptable
shapes viz money.
Example.  At risk of life,
limb and health, extra
military service.  Thus
are pensions for loss of limb,
life & wounds given by the
1.  Most frugal and wise
at Governments.
20.
Notandum 3d.  Factitious
dignity here marked
for exclusion is do as 
ordinarily conferred on
Monarchies: i.e. without
collection and publication
of evidence
of the service on which
this reward was grounded.
21.
Sole means by which
Government should be 
instrumental in conferring
dignity as a reward:
collection and
publication of the evidence
probatory of the 
existence, shape, and quantity
of the service:  with
the evil sustained or hazarded
by the service
rendered: with viz to himself.
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