JB_021_214n.xml

Title: [1823 Feb¼y¼. 20. Greece Constitut]

Description: 1823 Feb¼y¼. 20.

Greece Constitut. Code matter occasioned by Greece

?.1. Proper end of government what. 1. 2. 3. 4

?.2. Competent judges of what is most conducive to that end, who: over all or greatest number. 5

?.3. From contributing to the formation of that judgment and consequent will, shall any and who be excluded 6. 7.

?.4. 1. Females? 8.

?.5. 2. Non©Adults. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15

?.6. 3. Non©readers. 16. 17.

?.7. 4. Mahometans. 18. 19

?.8. Necessary to maximization of greatest numbers' happiness is maximization of the efficiency of dos will. 20. 21. 22.

?.8. Means of maximizing efficiency of greatest numbers will Operation by Delegates: their inducement to operate towards the proper end. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29.

?.9. Hence two bodies each possessed of supreme power in its own line: viz. Sup. Constitutive and Sup. Operative. But the Sup. Operative must be subordinate to and dependent for its power on the Sup. Constitutive. 30. 31.

?.10. Of the Sup. Operative the strictness of dependence on the will of the Sup. Constitutive should be maximized. 32.

?.11. From the Supreme Operative must be detached the Sup. Executive: remains above it, the Supreme Legislative. 33. 34. 35. 36. 39

?.12. Subordinate proper ends 1. Expence minimized 37. 38

?.13. 2. Aptitude maximized 39. 40. to 53.

JB_021_279.xml

Title: [1823 Feb 17 Greece Superseded?]

Description: 1823 Feb 17

Greece Superseded?

J.B.'s Articles and Reasons

3 Executive

The will of the immediate Delegates of the people must not in any part of the system be exposed to the danger of experiencing any efficient resistance. Reason. If any such resistance can be applied, it must be by the will and action of some one or some one or sets of men: to which men accordingly appertains the power of efficient resistance. But, being in possession of this power, they will be able and as surely as able, willing, to make use /application/ of it to their own private advantage: to procure for themselves some advantage /good/ which can not be possessed and enjoyed by them, but at the expence of the felicity of the greatest number © that is to say by loading them with evil to an amount more than equivalent to the good so, as above enjoyed.

To produce and secure the existence of this state of things the sway of the supreme legislative over the supreme Executive in all its grades must be most absolute. To the power /Office/ of the supreme legislative must belong the power of displacing the President at a moments warning: to the President, that of dismissing in like manner the several Secretaries of State including the Minister of Justice: as also the several functionaries subordinate to them in their respective departments © the several functionaries in all their grades. No functionary however ought to have it in his power thus to displace any functionary subordinate to him without the concurrence of the President unless[?] perhaps the Minister of Justice: because in the opposite case, the intermediate functionary might by the displacing of his immediate subordinate frustrate the will and thence the designs of the President and thereby of the Supreme Legislative.

In proportion as this system of universal subordination is strict and efficient, and the sway thereby produced absolute, freedom in the only sense in which it is subordinate /subservient/ to general utility that is to the greatest happiness of the greatest number, may with truth be said to be perfect: if any thing be out of the reach of its absolute power /withdrawn from under the sway/, whatever is so becomes so much despotism in disguise.

JB_113_054.xml

Title: [1822 May 10 Economy etc Text?]

Description: 1822 May 10

Economy etc Text?

12 May 1822 Quere in what place if any shall use be made of the matter of this

sheet?

6 The greatest happiness of the greatest number requires that the hand or hands

in which the supreme Executive power is placed be subordinate to the supreme

legislative body in all modes of subordination: namely 1. by power of cessation:

2. by power of command on pain of punishment. 3. by power of punishment. 4. by

power of dislocation but not 5. by non-concurrence.

Principle of exclusion of Anarchy Anarchy-inhibiting principle

Q. The supreme legislative power and the /a/ supreme super Executive power why in

the same hand?

A. Suppose for simplicity of conception suppose the Supreme Executive power to be

in the hand of a single functionary. If he were not displaceable by the supreme

legislative functionary or body of functionaries their power might by him be

reduced to impotence If he were not punishable by that same legislative body, he

might before the dislocation could be effected produce mischief indefinitely

intense, extensive and irremediable. He might for example put to death the

members of it in any number. If, so far as depended upon their power and the

orders given in consequence he were dislocated - he might refuse to submitt to

those same orders.

7. The greatest happiness of the greatest number requires that the Office of

Supreme Executive Functionary be in the hand of a single individual. Stile him

for example President /Supreme Director/ of the Commonwealth. Reasons 1.

Principle Responsibility securing principle 2 Expence minimizing principle. 3.

Complication inhibiting principle.