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1822 May 10 Economy etc Text?
1822 May 10

Economy etc Text?

Minimal[?] = marginal[?] location

Examples and Observations - i.e. Facts observed.

Quere if not superseded this sheet May 12?

1. The greatest happiness of the greatest number requires that with reference to

the possessor or possessors of the supreme operative power the constitutive

power be in the hands of the greatest number, viz of apt hands: apt in respect

of literary acquirements.

2 The greatest happiness of the greatest number requires that the supreme

operative power legislative and Super Executive should be in the hands of a body

corporate body, the Members thereof located by Election performed by so many

assemblages of such of the Members of the whole community as are endowed with

adequate appropriate aptitude, relation had to such their functions: the

assemblages being determined by the local Districts which they inhabit and each

Member being elected by the apt inhabitants of one such District: no inhabitant

voting /deliver his vote/ in Districts more than one: each such Member being

intituled /stiled/ a Deputy or say a Delegate of the People: and the whole

Assembly the Congress of the Deputies of the people: or say for shortness the

Congress

3. The greatest happiness of the greatest number requires that the supreme

legislative power being in the hands of a Congress composed of the Deputies or

Delegates of the People located as above, the supreme super-executive power be

in these same hands Principle Anarchy-inhibiting principle

4. The greatest happiness of the greatest number requires that the powers of the

Delegates of the people be exercised by the whole number sitting and acting in

an undivided body: no other divisions having place but such as are effected by

that same body itself: by its forming out of itself for example under the name

of Committees Sections out of itself, each Section subordinate and responsible

to the whole.

Principles. 1 Delay-prohibiting principle. 2. Expence-prohibiting principle. 3.

Complication prohibiting principle.
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