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[xxxvi. 150] 1822 July 1 Constitut
[xxxvi. 150]

1822 July 1

Constitut. Code Rationale

Supreme Operative

1 Morals

2 Intellectuals

Conclusion

Revolution producing change in the individual its insufficiency

After Intellectual as well as Moral Inaptitude as applied to a limited Monarchy - Conclusion.

Every Mixt Monarchy contains in its essence the principle /[...?]/ of suicide.

The result is - that in all branches - the inaptitude is on all occasions has been in all instances - not in the individual not in the particular individual in question but in the situation:- not in the particular nature of the individual in question in the general nature of the situation: and that the situation being what it is the inaptitude is absolutely irremediable: and that therefore whatsoever be the political state the existence of any such situation in the Official Establishment is utterly incompatible with the greatest happiness of the greatest number utterly incompatible with every thing to which the appellative of good government can with any propriety be applied.

That if by a good King is meant a King by whose existence more happiness would have place in the community than would have place if neither he nor any other individual possessing the same power were in existence - there never has been nor ever can be any such person as a good King: and that every man who is a King is by the mere circumstance of his being a King rendered of necessity a bad one.

In conjunction with external circumstances, idiosyncracy may have and in fact to a certain degree always does render this or that King less bad than this or that other But to the purpose of the enquiry /practical conclusion/, every such enquiry into the character of this or that individual in that same situation is needless and useless: indeed worse than useless the tendency of it being to lead men to suppose that by /from/ a substitution of one individual to another in that situation the evil may be not incapable /capable/ of receiving a remedy: which as already shewn is not true.
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