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9
C
Of Rebellion
whole body of a people with respect to themselves
is in question it is an abuse of terms to talk of
duty: they have an interest, but they can not have
a duty. Each man member has a duty towards the whole
each member while there is a sovereign has a duty
towards the sovereign as the representative of the
whole: each member owes obedience to the sovereign
in as far as the paying obedience to the sovereign
is the way to promote the interest of the whole. ][
It is true that considering the sovereign for the time being as in as far
as he has a particular interest of his own in being
so, inasfar as he has been accus is in the expectation of
continuing to receive those benefits which from his
station he has been accustomed to receive, in as
far as it would be an affliction to him to be deprived
of those benefits, and that affliction more
than equivalent to the joy of him to whom they
should be respectively unexpectedly transferred, in this point of
view it must be confessed that the withdrawing
their obedience without any adequate advantage would
be a were in the whole body of the people, be av besides
the imprudence of it, be a breach of duty : since the interest
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jeremy bentham |
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