1822 May 25

Economy etc

Appendix

Indication of certain False or Erroneously supposed Securities for appropriate

aptitude in relation to divers Official situations

1. Exclusions usually put upon certain classes excluding them from participation

in the exercise of the supreme Constitutive power by right of suffrage.

2. Division of the supreme Operative body into two or more Chambers

3. Application of the power of the Religious Sanction under the management of

the supreme operative power in the character of a security for appropriate moral

aptitude or in that of a counterforce to legal power in the hands of the

possessors of supreme operative power and their subordinates.
Similar Items
  • Title: [1822 May 25 Economy etc .2]
    Description: 1822 May 25

    Economy etc

    .2. Efficient causes of or Employable Securities for appropriate Official

    Aptitude in its several branches, enumerated and explained.

    I Moral Aptitude - Securities for its existence /it./

    1. Identification of individual with universal interest in the situation of

    possessors of the supreme Constitutive power.

    2/1/. Minimizing power in the situations of the possessors of the supreme

    Operative power.

    3/2/. Minimizing money in the situations /hands/ /disposal/ of the possessors of

    the supreme Operative power and their subordinates

    4/3/. Minimizing the quantity of money /factitious remuneration and moneys worth/

    applied in remuneration of the services of public functionaries possessors of

    the supreme operative power and their subordinates.

    /4. Exclusion or abolition of factitious dignity/

    5. Maximizing legal responsibility - i.e. eventual subjection to legal punishment

    in the situations of possessors of the supreme Operative power and their

    Subordinates.

    6. Maximizing moral responsibility - i.e. subjection to reproach at the hands of

    the Public Opinion Tribunal by which the force /power/ of the Moral or Popular

    Sanction is applied as a counterforce to the legal power of the state
  • Title: [[clviii. 351] 1822 May 15 Economy]
    Description: [clviii. 351]

    1822 May 15

    Economy etc

    Ch Securities for I Moral Aptitude

    .2.I. Identification of interests

    2. or 1. Identification of personal with universal interest how effected in the highest grades.

    1. Constitutive power as to supreme operative in all members, asigned causes of exclusion excepted: its Fractionization thus maximized

    2. Fractionizing supreme operative power - the fraction not exercising it, but in conjunction: viz in an assembly.

    3. Rendering supreme operative functionaries responsible to do. constitutive.

    3 or 2. Q. Are there any members of the community whom on any account the greatest happiness principle pronounces unapt for participation in the constitutive power with relation to the supreme operative do.

    A. Yes: all presumably not adequately possessed of appropriate aptitude

    4. or 3. Q. Who are they.

    As to moral aptitude none. No moral inaptitude being greater than what is constituted by disposition to sacrifice the interest of all others to self-interest: and where equal power towards accomplishment of this wish is given to all, nothing better can be done for universal interest.

    5. or 4. Q. As to intellectual aptitude any?

    A. Yes: namely

    1. All disqualified as to appropriate judgmt. by immaturity of age.

    2. - or as to appropriate scientific aptitude, by inability to read and give assent or dissent by writing: provided there be persons thus apt in sufficient number to constitute an interest not disagreeing with the universal do.

    6. or 5. Q. Age, what at which relative immaturity should cease?

    A. that at which it should cease with relation to general self government.

    7. or 6. Q. What is that?

    A. Arbitrary division here unavoidable - custom may therefore determine

    1. Per Rome bred law 25. years.

    2. Per English bred, 21.

    English term of immaturity full long - Reason silent or hesitating - Custom a useful arbiter. From departure from custom, disappointment: from disappointment, pain.
  • Title: [1822 May 25 Economy etc II]
    Description: 1822 May 25

    Economy etc

    II. Intellectual Aptitude - Securities for its existence /it/

    1. Antecedential or presumptive Securities - Appropriate Examinations wherein of

    Examination in the art of reading in the case of the possessors of the supreme

    Constitutive power

    2. Minimizing factitious remuneration: viz. the several official situations of

    the possessors of the supreme operative power and their respective functionaries

    For other Securities see IV. Securities for all points branches or elements of

    appropriate Official Aptitude taken together

    III. Appropriate Active Aptitude - Securities for its existence /it/

    1. Antecedential Security 1. Maximizing and universalizing appropriate

    attendance: i.e. attendance at the spot at which the function is required to be

    exercised.

    2. Antecedential Security 2. Minimizing factitious remuneration.

    IV. All Elements of Appropriate Official Aptitude taken together - Securities for

    them /their existence./

    1. Concomitant Security: In the Edifice /Seat/ and Chamber of each Office keeping

    exposed to public view the regulations and points of information and monitions

    by which the due execution of the function in question is endeavoured to be

    secured. Say, Maximizing the publicity of official obligations and checks.

    2. Subsequential Security. For assisting the judgment of the Locating and

    dislocating functionaries in chief, appropriate indication afforded of

    comparative degrees of aptitude among Candidates for promotion: appropriate, viz

    by the suffrages concealed or divulgated of functionaries and others who by

    their respective situations have been in a way to make apt observations - Say

    Collection of apt testimonials.