JB_113_066.xml

Title: [1822 May 12 Economy etc Q.]

Description: 1822 May 12

Economy etc

Q. What, if any, are the circumstances by which with reference to this function a

member of the community is rendered destitute of /divested of/ the requisite and

indispensable portion of intellectual aptitude viz in the shape of scientific

and judicial aptitudes

A. Yes: namely 1. Immaturity in respect of age

2. Destituteness or insufficiency in respect of that branch of art and science of

appropriate scientific aptitude which is necessary to enable the constitutive

functionary to form a judgment concerning /in relation to/ the aggregate

appropriate aptitude absolute and comparative of a person proposed for the

situation of member of the body of supremely operative functionaries, in a word

the art of reading, and /with the addition of the art/ of writing as applied to

the signature of his own name: provided alway that in a number sufficient to

constitute an interest not different /disagreeing/ from the universal interest

members endowed with the [...?] of art and science are in a condition to

exercise the function

Q. What in the scale of age is the point below which the greatest happiness

principle requires that immaturity with reference to this function be presumed.

A. That point, below which persons in general are regarded as not possessed of

knowledge and judgment sufficient to enable them to take the general direction

of their own conduct.

Q. What is that age?

A. On this point fixation can not be other than in a great degree arbitrary and

casual Custom may therefore be allowed to determine. Under Rome bred law the age

thus fixt is five and twenty years; under English-bred law, one and twenty. One

and twenty seems full long enough, five and twenty much too long. Where no clear

decision is given by reason /Reason silent or hesitating/, custom should on

every occasion decide the scale. By departure from custom, disappointment is

produced: and by disappointment, disquietude, meanness, pain.

JB_113_034.xml

Title: [1822 May 25 Economy etc .2]

Description: 1822 May 25

Economy etc

.2. Efficient causes of or Employable Securities for appropriate Official

Aptitude in its several branches, enumerated and explained.

I Moral Aptitude - Securities for its existence /it./

1. Identification of individual with universal interest in the situation of

possessors of the supreme Constitutive power.

2/1/. Minimizing power in the situations of the possessors of the supreme

Operative power.

3/2/. Minimizing money in the situations /hands/ /disposal/ of the possessors of

the supreme Operative power and their subordinates

4/3/. Minimizing the quantity of money /factitious remuneration and moneys worth/

applied in remuneration of the services of public functionaries possessors of

the supreme operative power and their subordinates.

/4. Exclusion or abolition of factitious dignity/

5. Maximizing legal responsibility - i.e. eventual subjection to legal punishment

in the situations of possessors of the supreme Operative power and their

Subordinates.

6. Maximizing moral responsibility - i.e. subjection to reproach at the hands of

the Public Opinion Tribunal by which the force /power/ of the Moral or Popular

Sanction is applied as a counterforce to the legal power of the state

158_348.xml

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

Description: [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.