date

[clviii. 346] 1822 May 29 Economy
[clviii. 346]

1822 May 29

Economy etc.

Ch Securities for I Moral Aptit.

Interests identified

18. or 1. Difference in respect of this Salutary identification between the situation of the possession of the Constitutive power, where they are the people at large, and the situation of the possessors of the supreme operative power. In the former case, the identification is already accomplished: in the other, it remains to be accomplished: to be effected as nearly as possible.

19. or 2. Functionaries always the same: sole exceptions, changes made by birth │   │: death, emigration, cession active.

20. or 3. Thus are simplicity and efficiency maximized.

24. or 4. The thing here to be done accordingly is not taking a certain class and making their interest identical with universal do., but taking those whose interest is the universal do., and lodging the power in their hands.

22. or 5. In the case of the supreme operative power, those who are to be possessors of it, not being the do. of the constitutive power, their interests can not be identical: on points │   │ they can not but be opposite. To render them perfectly identical will scarce be possible. To render them as near to identical as possible, will require no small labour. No labour can be too great. To their power of making the sinister sacrifice, every limit should be applied that can be so without preponderant detriment to their power of accomplishing the only right and proper end.

This mode of subordination is do. by dislocability.

23. or 6. Course to be taken in this view.

1. Give to possessors of supreme operative power, power to do every thing imaginable, save as excepted by detrimental limitations explicitly applied to it Limitative 1. Subordination by dislocability to Constituents. Consequence and use. So far as, on Constituents' judgment, they pursue a course conducive to the right and proper end, they will be continued in place: whenever they pursue an opposite course, they will be dislocated. What the regulator is to the main spring, Constituents' power is thus to operatives.
Similar Items
  • Title: [1822 June 10 Economy V. Fifth]
    Description: 1822 June 10

    Economy

    V. Fifth Security for appropriate moral aptitude on the part of ruling

    functionaries - legal responsibility universal.

    Axiom or Position. The greatest happiness of the greatest number requires, that

    every public functionary possessor of supreme operative power in whatsoever

    shape without exception(1) be compleatly responsible(a) in a legal sense to the

    people in their quality of possessors of the supreme Constitutive power

    Expository Matter Exposition

    (Compleatly Responsible) Namely by all the several appropriate modes of

    subordination applicable to that same situation

    These are as follows

    1 by Dislocability. See │ │

    2. by Punibility. See │ │
  • Title: [1822 May 25 Economy etc In]
    Description: 1822 May 25

    Economy etc

    In regard to the possessors of the supreme operative power, the general

    description of their power must be that their power extends to every thing is

    all-comprehensive - that in virtue of it they are at liberty and empowered /have

    been empowered on all occasions/ to do as they please at all times and places

    whatever they please in relation to all persons and all things appertaining to

    the community in question. But on the other hand to confine the exercise of this

    power within the limits corresponding to the universal end, an adequate counter

    power or counterforce must be established: this is the power reserved or given

    to the creators of their power the possessors of the supreme constitutive power

    to be the annihilators of it whenever they please. This being settled

    /established/, so long as in the eyes of those creators that pursuit in which

    these same creators (being human creators), are sure to be engaged - namely the

    pursuit of their own particular happiness, is carried on no otherwise than

    through the medium of the universal happiness and the share they have in it - no

    otherwise in a word than by the pursuit of the universal happiness in

    consideration of the share they /[...?]/ have in it, so far will the possessors

    of the supreme constitutive, governed as they are each of them by his regard for

    his own interest, suffer the possessors of the supreme operative power to

    continue to exist in such their situations and to go on in such their courses.

    But no sooner is it understood or believed that in the pursuit of their /each

    one of his/ own happiness these possessors of the supreme operative power

    concurr in a course of action detrimental to the aggregate happiness of these

    same possessors of the supreme constitutive power than by their act to the

    existence of such their rebellious creatures and unfaithful agents a period will

    be put. Of the general nature of the counter power or limitative power proper to

    be applied to the general power conferred on the possessors of the supreme

    operative power this is the least correct description that can be given in so

    /this/ small a number of words. Bur for rendering the description accurate

    certain modifications will be necessary /require/ to be added - modifications

    the expression of which will come in due course

    In the construction of this part of the machine, the first mentioned power

    performs the office of the main spring in a watch; the other that of the

    regulator in a watch. Without the regulator the main spring would do too much:

    without the main spring the regulator would do nothing viz one with one another

    and antagonizing with one another, in so far as they are aptly proportioned to

    each other they will do that which is required.
  • Title: [[xxxviii. 6] 1822 May 26 Economy]
    Description: [xxxviii. 6]

    1822 May 26

    Economy etc /Constitut. Code/

    Ch.2 Securities for moral aptitude

    Security 1. Identification of governors /rulers/ with governed's /subjects/ interest.

    .1. In what it consists 1. 2. 3. 4. 5

    .2. Necessity of this identification to greatest happiness etc. 6. 7.

    .3. How it has place when the supreme operative power is in the delegates of all the inhabitants

    .4 Opposition of rulers to subjects interest trustees to principals interest - its detrimental consequences with relation to greatest happiness etc 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13.

    .5 Modes of inaptitude on the part of rulers, in so far as such oppositeness has place. 14. 15

    .6. In case of extensive oppositeness sole remedy against misrule, change of form of government, change of functionaries useless. 16. 17.

     7 Different ways in which this security applies to the situation of supreme constitutive and that of supreme operative functionaries. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22

    Ch.3 Security 2. Subordinateness of supreme operative to supreme constitutive functionaries.

    .1. For producing this subordinateness what modes of subordination apt /applicable/, what unapt.

    .2. Apt mode 1. Dislocability of the subordinates by the superordinates, periodically applied

    .3. Do incidentally applied.

    .4. Apt mode 2. Punibility of the subordinates by the superordinates

    .5. Unapt modes: viz.

    1. Inability to originate measures without concurrence of the superordinate.

    2. Need of cooperation of do

    3. Suspensibility of measures by do

    4. Cessability of measures by do

    Ch. Security 3. Diminution of supreme Operative functionaries power by other means.