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Constitut Code Rationale
Securities
Factitious honor
?.2 Expository matter
??.2 Its mode of operation
A few points relative to this product /Relative to this product of government, /Here/ a few points there are which/ call for explanation
1. It operates as an order for respect, for respect to be for token of respect to be afforded and as it were paid by persons in general to him on whom the honor is said to be conferred. It operates therefore as a title to respect. In this particular It is in regard to respect that which an order for the payment of money a draught for example on a banker - is in regard to money: but with this difference that it is only on /at the hands of/ that one individual /person/ that the order for money calls for money, whereas it is at the hands of all persons in general that the title of honor - the order for respect - calls for respect.
On the each occasion of each such act It is an exercise of dominion over the many, for indeed in some sort over all, for the benefit of the one - over the many, indeed in some sort /with little exception/ over all. The means not being coercive, it produces not that sense of oppression which in general dominion exercised by coercive means /employing as usual /it must do/ coercion for its instrument/ can not when exercised /directed/ towards so unjustifiable an end, fail to produce. It is by delusion that the effect is produced not by force or intimidation. But the effect of it being as will be seen purely mischievous, the circumstance of their being one evil in [...?] which is not produced by it, will not suffice for turning /to turn/ the whole mass of evil into good.
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Title: [[xxxviii. 69] 1822 July 10.]Description: [xxxviii. 69] 1822 July 10. Constitut Code Rationale Factitious honor ?.1. Expository matter ??.1. Nature and modifications. 8 or 1. Characters in which a title of honor operates. 1. Order for respect: as such is a title to respect: i.e. to the external tokens of it: order for money is on one individual: for respect, on all. 9. or 2. Exercise of dominion on the many - in almost all. Instrument of dominion not coercion, not intimidation, but delusion. Evil thence not so great: yet still too great. 10. or 3. 2. Certificate of good desert, alias merit: import indeterminate; this the course of choice: Fact attested existence of this quality in the subject. 11. or 4. Effect produced, causing to be ascribed to him dignity: i.e. worthiness: viz. of receiving respect or tokens of it: means employed, opinion expressed by the conferring functionary that this benefit has been deserved by him - on whom conferred: deserved i.e. by service rendered by him: quere to whom? Of service, if real, the result must be pleasure or exemption from pain, actual or probable. 12. or 5. So, merited. Take away service, thence pleasure and pain, merit evaporates. 13. or 6. To be meritorious, such service must have had in it something extraordinary. Of services the most useful are such as have no merit. Thus self-feeding, and sale and purchase of food. 14. or 7. Respect - its value, if any, must consist in a certainty or probability of benefits in a more determinate shape.
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Title: [[clx. 308] 1822 July 6. Constitut]Description: [clx. 308] 1822 July 6. Constitut. Code Rationale Factitious honor Moreover what on this occasion has been shewn is - that in the nature of the case every token, emblem, evidence visible or otherwise perceptible efficient instrument or cause of this artificial instrument of sinister interest /factitious and mischievous product of bad government/ is a false certificate employed for the purpose of obtaining for the possessor a portion of respect which is not only not due, but which if paid can not but be in a preponderant degree mischievous. To issue any such instrument is in effect to issue a general order to the several members of the community to be accomplices to /with/ the member of the bad government in the /all the several/ acts of depredation and oppression which by this and the other incorporeal instruments of misrule they are of course in the habit of committing in virtue of their respective offices: acts whereby to pamper men by units they starve men and consign them to lingering death by thousands. To make one in the payment of the tribute so demanded is to aid and abet those enemies of the community in the war they never cease to be carrying on against it If this be so, on each occasion, the fraud which by the voluntary bearing of any one of these titles the possessor is a principal in, finds in every one who voluntarily pays in the shape of respect the tribute thus called for, either an opponent an accomplice or a dupe: an opponent if he refuses payment an opponent, if he pays it, being at the same time conscious of the deceptiousness and mischievousness of the demand, an accomplice: if he pays it, for want of being really apprized of this its true nature, a dupe. In a word the case of him whosoever concurrs in the paying of undue tribute in this shape bears a close analogy to the case of him who receives and puts off base and counterfeit money
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Title: [[clx. 278] 1822 July 12 Constitut]Description: [clx. 278] 1822 July 12 Constitut Code Rationale 6 Factitious honor excluded 4. Evils produced 7. Evil 7: evil by sanction given to imposture. The character in which this token operates is that of a certificate of merit on the part of the wearer: of useful and meritorious service rendered by him in some shape or other to the community at large: and combined with this certificate is a draught drawn upon the members of the community in their character of members of the Public Opinion Tribunal for value received: a draught payable in tokens of respect, value received in the shape of meritorious service The functionaries by whom this counterfeit /deceptious/ instrument is uttered are by the practice of uttering it and the habit of seeing it accepted, encouraged to act in the character of impostors. It operates in this way on their moral faculties as an instrument of demoralization 8 Evil 8: evil by propagation of delusion. This evil is the counterpart of the last preceding one. In so far as the imposture /fraud/ passes upon them undiluted - in so far as they /men/ are imposed upon by it, and bestow respect where respect is undue and the payment of it mischievous - mischievous to themselves[?] mischievous, as hath been seen to every body it operates upon their intellectual faculties: it operates as an instrument of intellectual depravation.
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