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8 C Rebellion

is necessary to the supporting them in their assumed
may easily be examined determined upon
the above principles. This kind of Rebellion is
sometimes though but rarely engaged in like the last-mentioned
from a spirit of adventure, and in that
case comes in some measure under the like censure
part on the proceeding case The principle however
is at any rate more respectable in this case than
at that: and it is the more so according as the
number of those who are concerned in the defection
is greater or less in proportion to that of those
who persist in their allegiance. In the former
case it is pure selfishness; in this case it is a more
enlarged kind of selfishness which approaches nearer
and nearer to pure patriotism as the above number
proportion of those whose interest it consults is greater
in comparison with the number of those whose
interest is neglected. Conceive the whole body of the
people to join in the defection, conceive them
to change rulers their sovereign every day, there may imprudence
in their conduct as much as you please : but there
can be no breach of duty. When the conduct of the whole

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	071	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	195	Info in main headings field	of rebellion
Image	004	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f5 / f6 / f7 / f8
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[gr with crown motif] propatria [britannia motif]]]
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Notes public		ID Number	23598
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