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Title: [[lxxxiv. 28] 1821 Decr. 7 Codification]

Description: [lxxxiv. 28]

1821 Decr. 7

Codification Proposal

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Appendix

Monarch and Aristocracy

Relation

Relation between the /Monarch's/ interest of the Monarchy and the interest of the Aristocracy in its several branches. Interests how far coincident, how far conflicting © how far and how reconcileable and reconciled.

I In respect of money. It is the interest of the Monarch as above that the quantity of money in his hands and at his disposal of the matter of subsistence and abundance extracted /extorted/ from those by whom it has been produced and from those into whose hands with their free consent it has passed should be as great as possible

So is it the interest of the aristocracy in the aggregate, with the exception of such part of it as is extracted from them and thus at their expence

II. As to power. It is the interest of the Monarch as above that the quantity of power in his hands and at his disposal be as great as possible.

So is it the interest of the Aristocracy in the aggregate with the exception of /power in/ any such power /shape/ by /from/ which any sensible defalcation may be made from their own security: in particular from their own security as against misdeeds committed to their prejudice by the Monarch or any instrument of his.

III. As to factitious dignity. 1. It is the interest of the Monarch as above, that the quantity of it be as great as possible: in a Monarchy the whole stock of it being in one way or other his: either condensed in his own person, or at his disposal

It is the interest of the Aristocracy taken in the aggregate that the quantity of it be as great as possible: since the greater the aggregate mass the greater in possession or in contingency will be each members share.

On the other hand it is the interest of each member taken separately not only that upon a level higher than his own, but upon the same level with his own a quantity of this aliment to pride and vanity be as small as possible: since by every addition to the number of those who are sharers with him the value of his own share is lessened.

JB_084_018.xml

Title: [[lxxxiv. 18] 1821 Decr 5 Codification]

Description: [lxxxiv. 18]

1821 Decr 5

Codification Offer

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I. Monarchs interest

Security bears reference to evil, and can no otherwise be understood than by reference to it: security is security against Evil. Evil may be considered in respect of its nature, or in respect of its source

Sources of evil are the operations of nature: the operations of human beings considered in the several characters of internal adversaries: and external adversaries: internal adversaries are termed misdoers: their acts in so far as productive of evil misdeeds Misdoers are either non©possessors of political power or possessors

It is the interest of every member of the community to possess in the compleatest degree security against evil from all these several sources against misdeeds by individuals at large and against misdeeds by /of/ functionaries

exception excepted It is the particular interest of the Monarch that the maximum of security should be enjoyed by all the other members of the community in all these several branches with only one exception. But it is his interest that against his own power including that of all other functionaries in so far as the exercise of their respective powers is not unconformable to his will there should /shall/ be no security

It is in a word his interest that in all things /points/ in which any contrariety has place between his particular interest and the universal interest the /a/ sacrifice of the universal interest to his particular interest shall take /have/ place. This sacrifice may be termed a sinister sacrifice © in the present case /instance/ the Monarchs sinister sacrifice.

Whatsoever arrangement produces a net addition to the sum of his happiness it is his particular and sinister interest that it shall accordingly take place, whatsoever be the quantity of unhappiness and misery thereby produced /defalcation thereby made from the greatest happiness of the greatest number/

036_133.xml

Title: [[xxxvi. 133] 1822 June 29 Constitut]

Description: [xxxvi. 133]

1822 June 29

Constitut. Code

Supreme Operative

I. Monarch

His interest sinister

2. Take in the next place the four immediately subordinate ends of the Non-penal or distributive branch of law: Subsistence, Abundance Security and Equality in so far as the less important are compatible with the more important, maximized.

1. Subsistence. This it is true it is his interest they should have: that is to say such of them as are in a condition to work and can be made to work: for, unless he lives, man can not work. /for man can not work any longer than he lives./

But it is the interest of the greatest number that whether able or not able to work they should live which is as much as to say that they should subsist that they should have subsistence /in which is included the having subsistence/.

2. Abundance. This also it is his interest they should have: and the more /greater the quantity/ they acquire /produce/ and thence have, the greater the quantity which it will be in his power, as it can not fail to be in his inclination, to get out of them /these/ for himself. But so long as by any act of his, any addition how small so ever, which could not otherwise be made to the stock of the matter of abundance to the stock of their portions neither passing into and through his hands, how great may be the quantity which by this same act is taken out of their hands or prevented from finding its way into them will to this same personal interest of his be matter of indifference.

3. Security. Security is for body, mind, reputation, pecuniary property power, condition in life: it is against against injury at the hands of external evil doers, internal evil-doers not being functionaries, and internal evil doers being functionaries. Security against external evil doers, i.e. against foreign enemies his personal interest prompts him to maximize, so long /far/ as no expectation of profit presents itself from the restriction or diminution or destruction of it. But that which he is continually upon the watch to get is - an augmentation of the mass of the external instruments of felicity in his hands at the expence of other communities: and in the way /by means/ of war, that is murder upon the largest scale, this he never can get but by the diminution and as to so much the destruction of the security of his subjects as for the several possessions above enumerated.