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Parl y Ref m
Influence
'. Dependence how produced
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The object of desire - the desirable thing - may be either a thing the receivable nature of which is to be received all at once such as a sum of money once paid, or a thing the nature of which is to be received only in parcels or instalments, in respect of which the several acts of delivery and receipt delivery on one part receipt on the other are spread over a more or less considerable length of time as in the case of a pension a lucrative office the use of a house or the use occupation or profit of a portion of land.
{As it is only either by hope or fear that dependence is created, so it is}
In regard to the connection between corruption and dependence, so intimate is the connection between these two objects, that the difficulty /only difficulty which it admitts of/ consists not in conceiving how corruption should be productive of dependence - corrupt dependence - but how it should fail of being thus productive. But though extremely rare the case in which it is barren of dependence, and thence almost barren of evil is not altogether without example.
As it is only by hope or fear that dependence can be created, so the only case in which, corruption being employed, dependence fails of being produced, is the case in which the receipt of the benefit is neither preceded nor followed by any hope or fear having respect /that benefit for its object/: viz. neither by the hope of receiving it, nor by the fear of not receiving it, or of losing it.
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Title: [4 Dec 1809 Parl y Ref m Influence]Description: 4 Dec 1809 Parl y Ref m Influence '. Dependence how produced 3 Within the field of part corruption In the case of a desirable thing existing in such a shape which if received at all will be received all at once such as a sum of money to be paid at once , the only way /means/ in which it can be employed in the character of an instrument of corruption /corrupt dependence/ is by means /through/ the hope of receiving it accompanied with the fear of not receiving it. In the case of a desirable thing existing in such a shape /the form of which is such/ that the delivery and receipt of it is spread over a length of time its capacity of operating /operation/ in the character of an official cause of dependence, depends upon this, viz. whether the /for its/ continuance of it does or does not depend upon the person /party/ by whom in the character of corruptor it has been delivered: it has been placed in the hands of the person/party/ corrupted: if indefensible in such manner that the length of its continuance in those hands, or the value of it during that continuance is not capable of being diminished any more than encreased, or though defensible if not defensible at the will of such corruptor, in either of these cases in respect of its tendency to /faculty of/ produce /create/ dependence it stands upon the same footing as a benefit received all at once. Thus by a place /an office/, to be enjoyed by the incumbent during his life, value suppose ,10,000, and that place /office/ already in his possession no degree of dependence is produced more than would be produced by the gift and acceptance of a sum of ,10,000 once paid.
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Title: [4 Dec 1809 Parl y Ref m Influence]Description: 4 Dec 1809 Parl y Ref m Influence '. Dependence how created 6 The case in which it may happen to parliamentary corruption not to be productive of dependence is, as already intimated, not altogether without example. It is the case where the corruption is so circumstanced as to bear the name of bribery, the party to whom the matter of corruption is administered being a parliamentary elector, and the body by whom or on whose behalf it is administered, a candidate for a seat in parliament. Take the case of a venal but open borough: in which the thus corruptible part of the electors, receives each of them from one of the candidates a guinea for his vote. By /In/ this transaction, by corruption in this shape no sort or degree of dependence is produced on either side /part/ in particular not on the part of the elector. This transaction past this contract fulfilled on both sides an /a sort of/ expectation may /will/ naturally enough be produced, that in a future election the like contract may be repeated. But naturally speaking not being accompanied either by hope or fear, by this transaction no dependence /no dependence of the corrupted elector on the corrupting candidate/ will naturally speaking be produced. In the regular course of things, the /any/ occasion for repeating the transaction will not recurr again much sooner than at the end of seven years: when it does come, comes with it naturally enough perhaps the expectation of another guinea viz. from the same or another hand, but without any decided /small/ fear of less or hope of more: and be it what it may, viewed at so considerable a distance, no decided probability will naturally present itself /appear/ of its being either more or less if presented /offered/ by that same thing if presented /offered/ by any other hand.
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Title: [8 May 1811 Influence P.I]Description: 8 May 1811 Influence P.I Ch. 2. J.B.s Propositions 10 to […?] proper[?] appellation[?] to Electors. 23 In the case supposed in prop. 16, suppose the result /effect/ certain /sure/ in both senses, it would make no difference by which class of /sort of/ motives the will of the Member in question was determined: viz. /i.e./ whether by hope of eventual good, or fear of eventual evil, or both. 24. Supposing the result not altogether sure, other circumstances being equal, i.e. the quantity of the matter (such as money liable to be given or taken away) productive of /operating as the source or efficient cause of/ such hope or fear being equal, the fear would be more surely efficient than the hope. The degree of dependence created by the fear of losing a given sum, for example, is stronger /greater/ than the degree of dependence constituted by the hope of eventually receiving that same sum in the actual receipt of it.
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