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[clviii. 348] 1822 May 22 Economy
[clviii. 348]

1822 May 22

Economy etc

Ch Securities for I Moral Aptitude

.2.I. Identification of Interests

8 or 7. Q. Females - does greatest happiness principle require their exclusion.

A. Not more than males. Yes, if females are not members of the community: their happiness not a portion of universal do.: their interest not a do. of do.: or if in them intellectual inaptitude is so great as to incapacitate them from self direction to self advantage.

9. or 8. From experience, as attested by history, no reason why they should be deemed inferior? Take operative power in its highest grade and quantity: regal function.

Intellectual aptitude.

1. Elizabeth higher than Henry 8 or James 1.

2. Ann not lower than George 1 and 2.

3. Under Ann, England more prosperous than under William 3d.

4. If Mary killed heretics, so did Henry 8. and James 1.

5. If Mary killed Heretics, Hale, Chief Justice and Lawyers hero, killed Witches.

10. or 9. Consideranda. As to intellectual aptitude applied to the whole field of thought and action

1. how little decided is the inferiority of females.

2. how great their inferiority in respect of the means of acquiring do. aptitude under laws made by males.

11. or 10. Unapt for supreme operative power they might be, yet not for constitutive: apt for supreme operative power and not for constitutive they can not be.

12. or 11. From their right to equality as to happiness, if admitted, will follow their right to equality as to power considered as an instrument of happiness, so far as the nature of the species and sex permitts.

To constitute equality in their favour, for every necessary inferiority, they should have a compensation.

In domestic concerns, inferiority of physical force renders them inferior in power.

So as to exercise of military function.

So, under the military government of males, they are not likely to be placed in civil offices.

13. or 12. Hence, from Executive power in almost all its branches, they will stand excluded.

Also, from share in supreme legislative power by contemplation of confusion and corruption from mixture of sexes. Hence, greater the demand for equal share in constitutive power with reference to supreme operative.

14. or 13. Q. Custom - is it not sufficient warrant for exclusion here?

A. No more than in the case of tyranny.

Time in which the custom originated, do. of barbarian immaturity

In war, the origin of government

During war, necessity placed Government in single chief.

During peace, war continually in prospect, habit and providence.

For war, females rendered less apt by weakness.

15. or 14. Origin of democratico-representative │   │ of single-seated despotism. Money for war defensive or offensive, more promptly and certainly extractible from willing than unwilling contributors. For money, they received a share first of influence, and by degrees of power.

The management of the family property by them alone could the fatigue and danger of Journeys to and from the chief seat of power be endured.

16. or 15. In an assembly mostly of males, no mixture of females without confusion and ridicule.

17. or 16. Q. From admitting Females, any practical good at any time?

A. Yes: rendering legislative arrangements less unequally burthensome to females.

18. or 17. Q. Would you now propose admitting females into supreme constitutive power?

A. No. Till legislative system had received the maximum of improvement on almost all other points, no good, only evil from do. in this. Result of the proposal, excitation and discussion such as to suspend all other business indefinitely.
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