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Title: [12 Mar. 1804 Polit. Economy]

Description: 12 Mar. 1804

Polit. Economy

'.1 Wealth[?] III Agenda

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{ 4. Wherever Non Agenda have been acta, the doing away of the male acta, may

form so many additions to the catalogue of Agenda.

To this head belong those operations which consist in the removal of

obstructions to Sponte Acta.

Examples

1. Facilitating the conversion of intercommunity of occupation in land into

separate ownership.

2. Abolition or modification of those laws, by which land is vested inalienably

in a line of natural successors, although by impoverishment disabled from

causing encrease, or even preventing decrease, in the value of its produce.

3. Abolition or modification of laws, which give the like perpetuity, to

obligations attached to property in land, in the case where those obligations

are attended with greater burthen (viz: in the way of obstruction of encrease)

to the party in whom they are imposed, than profit to the party in whose favour

they were imposed. such is the case with many of the obligations termed in

relation to the party favoured by them feudal rights.

4. Gradual abolition and intermediate modification of those personal obligations

which come under the head of slavery.}

JB_017_281.xml

Title: [nd [wm 1800] +[?] D Ch. 2.]

Description: nd [wm 1800]

+[?] D

Ch. 2. Leading features

'.4.II. Population

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Chap 4.

Of Population

'.4. {II. Population} {4} /II/ Section 1 Sponte Acta with regard to Increase of

Population by Births everything may be left to the spontaneous action of

individuals+. {5} /1[?]/. {Non Agenda} {6. Non Agenda.}

Section 2 Agenda

with regard to increase of population next to nothing is required to be done by

Government; all that Government need do is to prevent decrease by deperition

{The support of Population may be aimed at in either of two ways - 1. preventing

decrease of deperition - 2. - causing encrease.}

{I. Prevention of Decrease. Agenda.}

1. To prevent deperition is to afford Security: security against the extremity

of all mischief, destruction of man's life. The only reason for action, on the

part of government, belongs in this case to another head. {Note See Ch.1.

Defence against external hostility, internal hostility, or calamity.}

Examples of Institutions for preventing deperition.

1. Hospitals for the use of the curable sick and hurt among the Poor.

2. Hospitals for the incurable sick and helpless.

3. Establishments for the occasional maintenance & employment of the

able-bodied among the poor: viz. of such by whom either the one or the other is

unobtainable from the ordinary sources. By their maintenance, population is

preserved: by their employment, wealth may be encreased or not;- crimes of

idleness are prevented.

4. Establishments for the preservation or mitigation of contagious diseases:

establishments, in former times for Inoculation; now for Vaccination. Much may

be done on the part of government, under this head as well as so many others, by

instruction: more or less requires to be done, in proportion as by the ignorance

of the people, operations of this class are excluded from the class of Sponte

Acta, and thence [laced among the Agenda.

Section 3

{Causation of Increase-} Non Agenda because Sponte acta

Institutions on the part of Government, having for their end in view the

causation of increase of population by Births may best be characterized by a

parallel example - Institutions - punishing men for not eating, or for eating

food not sufficiently nourishing:- Institutions paying all mankind for eating

with premiums for those who eat most and oftenest.

[Marginal rubric:] Continue the Section by adding transplanted matter p279 to

286.

+ Montesquieu XXIII.21.

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Title: [nd [wm 1800] + B Ch. 2. Leading]

Description: nd [wm 1800]

+ B

Ch. 2. Leading Features.

'.2. Wealth. 2. Non Agenda

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'.{2}/3/. {I. Wealth - 2.} Non Agenda.

1. Whatever is Sponte actum on the part of individuals falls thereby into the

class of Non Agenda on the part of Government. Coercion - the inseparable

accompaniment, precedent, concomitant, or subsequent, of every act of

government, is in itself an evil: to be any thing better than a pure evil, it

requires to be followed by some more than equivalent good. Spontaneous action

excludes it: action, on the part of Government, and by impulse from Government,

supposes it.

{2. Rule for judging of the utility of any measure of Government, in this line

or any other, for the execution of which money is required. Compare the expected

benefit of it with the mischief of the vexation, attached to the levying of the

sum in question by the most vexatious Tax: for, by giving up the projected

measure, the vexation from the Tax may be saved or done away.}