JB_113_053.xml

Title: [[cxiii. 53] 1822 May 10 Economy]

Description: [cxiii. 53]

1822 May 10

Economy etc Text?

[...?] = Glory

National power defensive good: offensive, bad.

May 12 1822. The matter of this sheet containing arrangements condemned may it not be inserted after the matter which contains arrangements recommended?

5 The greatest happiness of the greatest number requires that no functionary be located by lot /chance/: much less by birth: in no case otherwise than by nomination or election.

Q. Why not by chance?

A. Reason Suppose a certain individual endowed with the maximum of appropriate aptitude, chance renders the location of that individual improbable, in the ratio of the number of individuals to whom chance allows a /admitts a/ possibility of being admitted /admission/, to one

Q. Why not by birth?

A. Take for example the case where the whole of the operative power in the highest grade legislative and super-executive is in a single hand. Taking birth for the efficient cause of location i.e. proximity in the line of generation /proximity/ to the last individual located, the improbability of the maximum of the aggregate of appropriate aptitude will be at the highest pitch, more particularly in respect of moral aptitude: the probability will be on the side of the maximum of inaptitude /that branch/ which corresponds to and is opposite to appropriate moral aptitude.

JB_113_052.xml

Title: [1822 May 10 Economy etc Text?]

Description: 1822 May 10

Economy etc Text?

Minimal[?] = marginal[?] location

Examples and Observations - i.e. Facts observed.

Quere if not superseded this sheet May 12?

1. The greatest happiness of the greatest number requires that with reference to

the possessor or possessors of the supreme operative power the constitutive

power be in the hands of the greatest number, viz of apt hands: apt in respect

of literary acquirements.

2 The greatest happiness of the greatest number requires that the supreme

operative power legislative and Super Executive should be in the hands of a body

corporate body, the Members thereof located by Election performed by so many

assemblages of such of the Members of the whole community as are endowed with

adequate appropriate aptitude, relation had to such their functions: the

assemblages being determined by the local Districts which they inhabit and each

Member being elected by the apt inhabitants of one such District: no inhabitant

voting /deliver his vote/ in Districts more than one: each such Member being

intituled /stiled/ a Deputy or say a Delegate of the People: and the whole

Assembly the Congress of the Deputies of the people: or say for shortness the

Congress

3. The greatest happiness of the greatest number requires that the supreme

legislative power being in the hands of a Congress composed of the Deputies or

Delegates of the People located as above, the supreme super-executive power be

in these same hands Principle Anarchy-inhibiting principle

4. The greatest happiness of the greatest number requires that the powers of the

Delegates of the people be exercised by the whole number sitting and acting in

an undivided body: no other divisions having place but such as are effected by

that same body itself: by its forming out of itself for example under the name

of Committees Sections out of itself, each Section subordinate and responsible

to the whole.

Principles. 1 Delay-prohibiting principle. 2. Expence-prohibiting principle. 3.

Complication prohibiting principle.

114-010.xml

Title: [1822 June 17 Economy etc Hence]

Description: 1822 June 17

Economy etc

Hence for instruction and remembrance and standards of reference we have these formulae /axioms./ /aphorisms./

1 Sole justifiable end of laws, greatest happiness of greatest number

2. Immediate direct means or immediately subordinate end, aptitude maximized on the part of functionaries of all sorts employed in /about/ and under the law, appropriate aptitude maximized maximization of appropriate aptitude.

3 Collateral means or /and/ immediately subordinate end, expence minimized minimization of expence.

I. Aptitude

Appropriate aptitude is aptitude with relation to the end Inaptitude is the absence or the opposite of aptitude. In the case of a functionary of Government appropriate aptitude is appropriate official aptitude.

In /Of/ appropriate official aptitude with relation to the end of government and laws three branches or elements may /require to/ be distinguished, namely 1. Appropriate moral aptitude: 2. appropriate intellectual aptitude: 3. appropriate active aptitude

Appropriate intellectual aptitude again requires to be distinguished into 1. appropriate knowledge: 2. appropriate judgment.

For maximizing appropriate official aptitude in these its several branches the arrangements and other means employed by the Constitutional branch of law may be termed Securities for these several branches of appropriate official aptitude: These securities for it, are so many efficient causes of it: they respectively so many concurrent causes: the aptitude produced by them, their joint /common/ effect.