JB_160_357.xml

Title: [[clx. 357] 1822 July 14 Constitut]

Description: [clx. 357]

1822 July 14

Constitut. Code Rationale

Securities Counterforce

4. Legal Responsibility

5. Moral Responsibility

Evidence

This indirect mode of corruption by garbling is not altogether so mischievous as either of the two others. Of the matters kept from publication no such individual selection can be made as in the other case. Still however selection /separation/ in no small degree mischievous can be made and is made. For particulars and examples see the case of England.

As it is only by the power of government that this poisoning /corruption/ and this obstruction can be carried into effect, it is manifestly for the purpose of misrule, for the purpose of giving extension and perpetuity to misrule and thereby to human misery in all its shapes that enmity to mankind /war upon human /the/ happiness of mankind/ in both these shapes is on every occasion exercised /carried on/

But as nations are now [...?] information to any one nation is information to every other applying poison or obstruction to any one press is applying it to every other. Carrying on hostility in any one nation and thereby against that one nation is carrying on hostility against every other. It is still more extensively and effectively an act of hostility against all /the/ nations /of the earth/ than piracy is. For the mischief and terror produced by a pirate is confined to the seas on which his acts of piracy are exercised it is confined within the space of time, never a very long one during which those acts continue to be exercised. But the mischief produced by the suppression of information on the one side on the side of the victims of misrule while false and delusive information in support of misrule is let through may spread itself over all nations, and continue in all times.

038-027.xml

Title: [[xxxviii. 27] 1822 July 15.]

Description: [xxxviii. 27]

1822 July 15.

Constitut. Code Rationale

Securities

5 Moral Counterforce

Public Opinion Tribunal

Evidence and Comments

48. If at Statute Law, the subject of the prohibition has been described: thence, the case in which punishment will be applied.

49. By taxation may be produced in some sort the effect of corruption as well as of obstruction. By taxation, works that can not pay the tax stand prohibited: those that can and do permitted. Hence, the information is corruptly partial to the detriment of the comparatively poor: information that seeks to deceive them is poured in upon them: information that seeks to afford them useful instruction, is kept out of their sight.

50. Not quite so mischievous is this mode of corruption, as the two others: by a line thus drawn, mischievous and useful information can not be so compleatly separated to the purpose of pouring in the mischievous and keeping back the useful.

51. Only by rulers or with their aid, can these means of destroying the effect of this counterforce to their power be employed. In so far as they employ them, they make it evident that to maximize and perpetuate misrule, thence human misery in all shapes, are their endeavours directed.

52. Information to one nation being so to all, thus to maximize misrule and misery in one, is so to do in all the others.

53. More extensively hostile the Ruler who does thus │   │ is to the whole species, than a Pirate is: the mischief extends to all nations and all times.

54. Dangerous would it be to the indicater to indicate those enemies of mankind by their individual names: not so by their official do.

( Here give them)

JB_160_408.xml

Title: [[clx. 408] 1822 July 12 Constitut]

Description: [clx. 408]

1822 July 12

Constitut Code Rationale

Securities Counterforce

4 Legal responsibility

5 Moral responsibility

It being manifest that as members of the same community an identity of interests as between the members of the one Section and those of the other can not but to a considerable extent have place the consequence is - that to the list of the points in which the interests and thence the affections and opinions and actions of the aristocratical section are opposite to each other, an Appendix naturally expected is a list of the points in which the identification or coincidence between the two interests has place. But of a work /an operation/ of this sort the use would not in practice be very considerable. Why? Because in so far as the coincidence has place the force and efficiency of the aristocratical section is included and merged in that of the democratical: and no conclusion applicable to practice is derived /results/ from the coincidence. Not so where the opposition has place: for in so far as it has place, an interest opposite to the interest of the majority is in operation - an interest by which in so far as it predominates the happiness of the majority is made a sacrifice the minority body is over the majority of the whole: the real /unquestionable/ happiness of the many is /unquestionably/ sacrificed to the questionably greater happiness of the few