JB_160_048.xml

Title: [1822 Feb. 20 In Codification Offer]

Description: 1822 Feb. 20

In Codification Offer Not employed

Here if the space capable of being allotted to the present proposal

permitted - here would be the place for the development of that same sinister

interest by /in/ which the need of this same bridle is produced: of that sinister

interest, and of the urgency of the demand, which in the nature of the case has

place, for the strongest check, which in the nature of things can be applied by this

and all other possible bridles put together.

On this occasion aggregates of various sorts would require to be

analysed and displayed

1. The evil, in all its shapes, which by the genial power of sinister

interest placed in the all-commanding situation in question is liable to be produced:

liable, and, but for appropriate and adequate preventatives, sure to be produced. To

the possible aggregate amount of this evil there are in the present case, no limits

other than those of the entire field of legislation: a field little less extensive

than that of the whole field of human action In it are included all the several

masses of evil capable of being produced by particular laws in any number and extent.

2. The several situations in which political power has place,

together with the several shapes in which in these several situations sinister

interest operates: the several modifications of which the Monarchical interest is

susceptible: the several sections of which the Aristocratical interest is composed:

The Monarchical interest in all its modifications is it not a sinister interest? The

Aristocratical in all its sections is it not a sinister interest? Of these sections

the interest of the Representatives of the people is one: for though derived from the

democratical interest it is not the less in itself an aristocratical one. The Monarch

by whom the subsistence of a hundred thousand human beings is [...?] devoured, does

he not perpetually covet more so long as there is any thing left to covet? the

Aristocrat whose portion amounts to no more than the subsistence of a thousand such

beings is his appetite much less craving?

3. The two main instruments by which in a mixt government this

sinister interest operates towards the accomplishment of its end: namely the matter

of corruptive influence and the aggregate fund composed of the instruments of

delusive influence of corruptive influence exercised on the delegated representatives

of the people: of delusive influence exercised on all the members of the community

without exception: representatives, constituents, people at large: corruptive

influence operating on the will, delusive on the intellectual faculty.

4. The main pipes through which the matter of corruptive influence is

drawn, and the channels through which it is conveyed

5. The course taken by sinister interest in its progress towards the

consummation of the sinister sacrifice the devices which,

during such its progress it may be seen every where employing.

JB_084_171.xml

Title: [[lxxxiv. 171] 1822 Feb 14 Codification]

Description: [lxxxiv. 171]

1822 Feb 14

Codification Offer.

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V

2.

When as above no more than a part /portion/ of the operative power is in the hands of the deputed representatives of the people placed in those hands by the exercise of a correspondent constitutive power as above, a small quantity of that power /external instruments of felicity © objects of general desire ©/ especially of that of which the matter of wealth is the instrument, lodged in hands not displaceable by the subject many suffices for producing /the production/, sooner or later according to circumstances, the sinister effect the sinister sacrifice /for the production and consummation of the sinister sacrifice/.

For this purpose it is not possible to say what would be the least quantity sufficient: a quantity much smaller than the smallest that has ever yet been exemplified would suffice: amply sufficient would be the quantity in the hands of the President of the Anglo©American United States if that functionary were not as he is placed and displaceable by the subject many.

Considered in respect of its tendency by its action on the desires of the deputed representatives and trustees of the subject many to produce on their part a constant sacrifice of the universal interest in the continued violation of such their trust, the quantity of the external instruments of felicity thus situated /stationed/ may be stiled the matter of corruptive influence, or more shortly the matter of corruption: it is composed of the matter of reward that is to say the matter of good in any shape, in the case above and in so far as applied /applying itself/ to this evil purpose.

JB_084_073.xml

Title: [ÁÁ[Sheet preceding lxxxiv. 73] Constitutional]

Description: ÁÁ[Sheet preceding lxxxiv. 73]

Constitutional Code © discarded from

Codification Offer 3 Feby. 1822

?.5. Admission Universal. Members unapt. 1¼o: Ult¼o: Ultiss¼o.

Rulers (Monarchs and Representatives) sinister interest its Modifications © branches © instruments © manner and course of operation and effects.

Consummation /Ultimate effect/ of the Sinister sacrifice.

[lxxxiv. 73]

1821 Decr 4 Explanation

Codification Proposal

?.5. Adm<...>on Universal

Members Unapt

III. Aptitude and Inaptitude

Explanation

On this occasion to prevent misconception and that the force of the reasons may be the more clearly perceptible, explanations of a few leading terms seem altogether indispensable.

by appropriate aptitude on the part of the work in question is meant aptitude with relation to the only ultimate end which must be continually in view the greatest happiness of the greatest number, of which aptitude it is all along the business of the rationale to give indication and proof. By the explanation, the import of the property thus designated © an import which might otherwise appear indeterminate © is rendered determinate.

On the part of the work, appropriate aptitude will depend partly upon the aptitude of each distinguishable part taken by itself, partly upon ”consistency•: upon consistency of design and execution as between part and part.

As to both points, appropriate aptitude on the part of the work will depend upon appropriate aptitude on the part of the workman or workmen.

On the part of the workman, the elements of appropriate aptitude may be comprehended under these three denominations: namely appropriate moral aptitude, appropriate intellectual aptitude and appropriate active talent.

Appropriate intellectual aptitude will require to be moreover distinguished into appropriate judgment and appropriate knowledge.

By appropriate moral aptitude is here meant neither more nor less than the disposition to contribute to the accomplishment of the all©commanding and all©comprehensive end so often mentioned. It may be termed in one word appropriate probity /”probity•/. But the attribute /adjunct/ ”moral• has the advantage of pointing and leading to the consideration of the related /kindred/ attribute ”intellectual•.