JB_084_100.xml

Title: [[lxxxiv. 100] 1822 Jany 14]

Description: [lxxxiv. 100]

1822 Jany 14

Codification Offer

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?. Sinister interest - course of

The opposition between rulers and subjects interests proportional Sole case in which they are mild - U.S.

Necessary means bridling press and public discussion

This money - this object of continual and ever insatiable desire, the Monarch can never obtain it without the Representatives of the people nor the Representatives of the people without the Monarch: he and they will thus be perpetually linked together in a sort of partnership a community of sinister interest

The Monarch as such will have at his disposal with exceptions to a comparatively small amount, all the masses of money, and power with or without those of factitious dignity which are attached to the several public offices and public functions by the exercise of which the powers of government are exercised. As the magnitude of his power is in the direct ratio of the aggregate value of these several offices and functions, it will be among the objects of his endeavour to give every practical encrease to the number of them and to the value of each: including of course the preserving it from decrease

The Representatives of the people will on their parts be desirous in like manner each of them to give unbounded encrease to his own felicity by obtaining /getting into his/ to the largest amount in respect of value these and all other instruments of it

The Monarch for the purpose of satisfying such his desires will at all times be in readiness to impart to these several Representatives of the people or at any rate to a sufficient number of them these same objects of general desire

The Representatives of the people on their parts will in like manner be at all times in readiness each of them to receive at the hands of the Monarch to the greatest amount obtainable these same objects of desire: to receive whether by their own hands or by the hands of others whose interest in that respect is identified or linked with theirs makes to the purpose in question no material difference

JB_084_172.xml

Title: [[lxxxiv. 172] 1822 Feb 14 Codification]

Description: [lxxxiv. 172]

1822 Feb 14

Codification Offer.

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The course taken by the matter of corruption while occupied in the production of this evil and sinister effect may be thus delineated. /conceived./

The hands in which as above it is lodged may be the hands either of a single individual © a Monarch; or those of a number of individuals © an Aristocracy¼(¼a¼): or in any proportion it may be divided between both For simplicity /facility/ of conception take the simplest case, and let the hands be those of a Monarch.

Considered in themselves the objects of general desire thus lying at his disposal are comprisable under one or other of three denominations namely money, power, and factitious dignity, money say as being shorter and more familiar instead of the matter of wealth in all its shapes.

Considered in respect of the occasions on which or the form in which they are disposed of thence they may to this purpose be comprehended under the denomination of /are either/ Offices Commissions Pensions /Donations/ or Dignities. Of an Office the value and influence is composed either of the power, or of the money, possessed by /conferred by it on/ the official person /individual/ placed in it © a Commission is a name to Offices in certain departments and to offices the existence of which is short and transient in any department. A dignity is a sort of evidence and token of a certain degree of favour and estimation in which the dignitary is held by the Monarch: and the favour of the Monarch being the immediate source of all the good things as above which are at his disposal, it operates in the eyes of the subject many in particularly as an earnest of the matter of good in all its other shapes.

Note ¼(¼a¼)

In the original Greek Aristocracy is the power of the best: for so /such/ they would of course be stiled: stiled by themselves and by all who looked for favour at their hands. In fact they are every where and necessarily the worst: to render them such this very power of contributing towards the sinister sacrifice © accompanied as such power can never fail to be be with the correspondent desire and the act is amply sufficient: if in any community they are in any degree better than the worst /than a distinguishable and considerably extensive proportion of the whole/ it must be in virtue of that intellectual culture by the want of which alone those who are destitute of any share of operative power can be made /rendered/ worse in a moral sense than those who respectively have a share in it.

JB_160_034.xml

Title: [1820 March 4 Official Economy or Necessity]

Description: 1820 March 4

Official Economy or Necessity of Reform

Opulence or <...>

not antiseptic

Another reason for reducing all official emolument to a minimum is

this - that with the quantity of the emolument attached to the Office the quantity of

influence applicable to sinister purpose in general - and in particular to the

purpose of obtaining support in case of malversation encreases.

Of this bad effect from excess emolument the mischief is exemplified

in the most manifest and striking manner in the case of the Monarch in a Monarchy.

The greater the quantity of the mass of good things in all shapes he has at his

disposal, the greater the quantity of evil he is at once disposed and enabled to do

in the course of his endeavours to raise the quantity of his own felicity to the

highest pitch possible

As in that highest stage so in each inferior stage /level/ in the

scale /united scale/ of power and opulence

Thus it is that under the British government /Constitution/ for

example in all the superior Offices, responsibility in the penal sense is a perfect

mockery a mere empty name