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[lxxxiv. 120]
1822 Jany 24
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and what contributes to fix it is © that how bad soever as compared with a /the only/ government which has ever had for its actual end in view /object of endeavour/ the greatest happiness of the greatest number namely that of the Anglo American United States, it has been owing to its continual comparative weakness, eminently and incontestably good in comparison of every other government that has ever been in existence: and thus has not only been less bad than any other but by that appetite for distant dependencies which has been a main spring /source/ of that waste and corruption in which it has found its profit has under favourable circumstances this bad government given birth to that only good one.
At this time the quantity of aliment thus converted as above into poison seems to have reached its maximum, and to be even threatened with a decline. But in conjunction with the momentary sinister interest of the ruling few, the ultimate interest of the subject many seems rather to require that it should not decline: but that the endeavours to give encrease to it should continue on the encrease: that to that purpose the correspondent endeavour to give encrease to the force of government should continue on the encrease, until by the strain the whole fabric should burst and fall to pieces, in which case the only good one now so extensively understood would take its place of course
A little more, and no more victims will be thrown into jail because all jails will be filled: no prosecutions before Juries will be instituted because no Juries will convict for any thing /offence against Government/. The readiness of those by whom the abolition of that instrument of salutary weakness has been threatened the readiness to employ the law in execution of that threat is not to be /can not be/ doubted as little can the readiness of the Judges to give to the law execution and effect to the utmost power.
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Title: [[lxxxiv. 123] 1822 Jany 24]Description: [lxxxiv. 123] 1822 Jany 24 Codification Offer ult¼o ?.5 Admission Universal More favorable to the greatest happiness of the greatest number no ultimate state of things could reasonably be expected, under a Constitution the existence depends upon the hearty cooperation of an incensed Monarch in the business of forging shackles /manacles/ for his own hands: in which while no more than a share in the function of making laws is given to persons chosen /agents placeable and displaceable/ by the greatest number the appointment of all those on whose good will all the execution and effect can be given to them /those laws is left to depend/ is to left to him whose interest it is that no such execution and effect should be given to any of them except to those from which the share left to him of his former power will receive confirmation and encrease. a form of government /a state of things in respect of government/ in which the government /constitution/ depends for its existence and for all the good effects expected from it depends on the existence at all times of a human being who, being of the class and name of those to whose desire no resistance is ever opposed from without and having power to engage all men in the giving fulfilment /accomplishment/ to his desires is expected to keep his conduct in a state /[...?]/ of constant opposition to the whole current of those desires to /by/ which in that situation restraint has /was/ never in any instance been found endurable, in a word in which the accomplishment of the declared end is made to /trusted to/ depend upon a state of things absolutely impossible upon a chain of events the continuance of which after the first few links is absolutely impossible.
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Title: [[lxxxiv. 121] 1822 Jany 24]Description: [lxxxiv. 121] 1822 Jany 24 Codification Offer ult¼o ?.5 Admission Universal But a chance there is, nor that an inconsiderable one, that to sentences /a sentence/ pronounced by a Judge without a Jury, no Sheriff no Jailor, no Sheriff's Officer no Hangman will be found that when goods that used to be exposed to sale in execution of verdicts found by packed Juries are exposed to sale under judgments given without Juries no purchasers will be found, that those of the same which now so easily and copiously find their way into the grand reservoir of corruption the current would be stopped That, in the judgment /eyes/ /conception/ /expectation/ of /by/ those to whom the scourge of torture is an instrument of delight /applied to the backs of the injured/, no hand would /shew itself/ in England be found /as being ready/ to apply it is certain: for as yet it has not been among the imports from Ireland into England. To the Assembly to which the old man's rupture /was made to/ afforded a good joke afforded /was the cause of/ so much merriment because ruptured and reward[?] begin with the same letter, the importation of the Irish instrument of torture would have matter of serious delight, and to all appearances would beyond doubt have long ago been effected, but for the doubt whether in an /any/ English hand it could be made to do its offices
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Title: [6 June 1810. Influence Ch.]Description: 6 June 1810. Influence Ch. Systems '.3. Popular best 10 3 3 Nor is the state of monarchy so bad as that of despotism Compare antient Greece[?], with modern. The intellectual imperfection from which, if in dernier resort the business of government be reserved in the hands of the many misgovernment is apprehended as a weakness which not only admitts of, but is every day {receiving} /{experiencing}/ /enjoying the benefit of/ a remedy. The political state which the general question has more particularly in view is the British empire. The influx of misgovernment from this cause depends 1. upon the deficiency of their information on the subject of those matters of fact on an acquaintance with which good government Depends; 2. upon the influence of certain sophisms, by which, principally through the medium of the passions, in the character of causes of inflammation, the judgment of the many is exposed to be misled. But for centuries past the proportion of intelligence the quantity of information possessed by the many has been upon the encrease, and in no part of the time has the encrease been more rapid than in the course of the last half century. What is more, it is in the power of government in a prodigious degree and in a variety of ways to give assistance and speed to this encrease. The encrease it has received hitherto it has received rather in spite of their endeavours than by means of them: so far as concerns them it has had for its cause not so much their good will as their weakness or their negligence. What would it be if the benefit even of their good will were added to it?
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