JB-113_053.xml

Title: [1822 May 10 Economy etc Text?]

Description: 1822 May 10

Economy etc Text?

[...?] = Glory

National power defensive good: offensive, bad.

May 12 1822. The matter of this sheet containing arrangements condemned may it

not be inserted after the matter which contains arrangements recommended?

5 The greatest happiness of the greatest number requires that no functionary be

located by lot /chance/: much less by birth: in no case otherwise than by

nomination or election.

Q. Why not by chance?

A. Reason Suppose a certain individual endowed with the maximum of appropriate

aptitude, chance renders the location of that individual improbable, in the

ratio of the number of individuals to whom chance allows a /admitts a/

possibility of being admitted /admission/, to one

Q. Why not by birth?

A. Take for example the case where the whole of the operative power in the

highest grade legislative and super-executive is in a single hand. Taking birth

for the efficient cause of location i.e. proximity in the line of generation

/proximity/ to the last individual located, the improbability of the maximum of

the aggregate of appropriate aptitude will be at the highest pitch, more

particularly in respect of moral aptitude: the probability will be on the side

of the maximum of inaptitude /that branch/ which corresponds to and is opposite

to appropriate moral aptitude.

158_348.xml

Title: [[clviii. 348] 1822 May 22 Economy]

Description: [clviii. 348]

1822 May 22

Economy etc

Ch Securities for I Moral Aptitude

.2.I. Identification of Interests

8 or 7. Q. Females - does greatest happiness principle require their exclusion.

A. Not more than males. Yes, if females are not members of the community: their happiness not a portion of universal do.: their interest not a do. of do.: or if in them intellectual inaptitude is so great as to incapacitate them from self direction to self advantage.

9. or 8. From experience, as attested by history, no reason why they should be deemed inferior? Take operative power in its highest grade and quantity: regal function.

Intellectual aptitude.

1. Elizabeth higher than Henry 8 or James 1.

2. Ann not lower than George 1 and 2.

3. Under Ann, England more prosperous than under William 3d.

4. If Mary killed heretics, so did Henry 8. and James 1.

5. If Mary killed Heretics, Hale, Chief Justice and Lawyers hero, killed Witches.

10. or 9. Consideranda. As to intellectual aptitude applied to the whole field of thought and action

1. how little decided is the inferiority of females.

2. how great their inferiority in respect of the means of acquiring do. aptitude under laws made by males.

11. or 10. Unapt for supreme operative power they might be, yet not for constitutive: apt for supreme operative power and not for constitutive they can not be.

12. or 11. From their right to equality as to happiness, if admitted, will follow their right to equality as to power considered as an instrument of happiness, so far as the nature of the species and sex permitts.

To constitute equality in their favour, for every necessary inferiority, they should have a compensation.

In domestic concerns, inferiority of physical force renders them inferior in power.

So as to exercise of military function.

So, under the military government of males, they are not likely to be placed in civil offices.

13. or 12. Hence, from Executive power in almost all its branches, they will stand excluded.

Also, from share in supreme legislative power by contemplation of confusion and corruption from mixture of sexes. Hence, greater the demand for equal share in constitutive power with reference to supreme operative.

14. or 13. Q. Custom - is it not sufficient warrant for exclusion here?

A. No more than in the case of tyranny.

Time in which the custom originated, do. of barbarian immaturity

In war, the origin of government

During war, necessity placed Government in single chief.

During peace, war continually in prospect, habit and providence.

For war, females rendered less apt by weakness.

15. or 14. Origin of democratico-representative │   │ of single-seated despotism. Money for war defensive or offensive, more promptly and certainly extractible from willing than unwilling contributors. For money, they received a share first of influence, and by degrees of power.

The management of the family property by them alone could the fatigue and danger of Journeys to and from the chief seat of power be endured.

16. or 15. In an assembly mostly of males, no mixture of females without confusion and ridicule.

17. or 16. Q. From admitting Females, any practical good at any time?

A. Yes: rendering legislative arrangements less unequally burthensome to females.

18. or 17. Q. Would you now propose admitting females into supreme constitutive power?

A. No. Till legislative system had received the maximum of improvement on almost all other points, no good, only evil from do. in this. Result of the proposal, excitation and discussion such as to suspend all other business indefinitely.

JB_113_052.xml

Title: [1822 May 10 Economy etc Text?]

Description: 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.