JB_034_006.xml

Title: [[xxxiv. 6] 1821 July 21 Constitut]

Description: [xxxiv. 6]

1821 July 21

Constitut. Code - Securities for I Moral Aptitude

4. Legal responsibility

5 Moral responsibility

Public Opinion Tribunal

Public Opinion Tribunal

Ordo novus 21 July 22

?.1. Moral responsibility what subjection to power of moral sanction as applied by Public Opinion Tribunal. 2. This a fiction but indisputable and innoxious. 2. 4. 16 17. 9* its Members. 88. 89. 95.

Public Opinion Tribunal different degrees of effect and efficiency of which its operation is susceptible 61. 62. 63. 64. 65.

1. Decision unpronounced

2. Decision pronounced but not obligatory. 3. Decision obligatory.

Hostile faction in the Public Opinion Tribunal the Aristocratical. 89. 90. 91. 92. 93. 94. 96. 97. 98. 99. 100. 101. 102. 103. 104 to 127.

Hostility of the interests and affections of this faction to do of the greatest number. 96. 97. 89. 90. 91. 92. 93. 94. 97. 98. 99. 100 101. 102. 103. 104. 105. 106

Points of Hostility of interests. 96 97 98. 104. 105. 106. 107. 108. 109. 110. 111. 112

Points of hostility of affections 103 100. 101. 102. 121. 122. 123 124.

Points of hostility as to notions and judgments of approbation and disapprobation. 128. 129. 130. 131. 132. 133. 134. 135. 136. 137. 138.

Its indispensable [...?] 17. 19. 20. 21.

Requisites to bring it into action - 1. Evidence. 2. Comments their necessity. 22. 23. 24 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. │ 55 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. │ Supreme Operative 295.

? Channels through which it operates - how blockaded and corrupted - mischievousness and immorality of this practice 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. In Supreme Operative. 230. 231. 232 233. 234. 235. 236. 237. 238. 239. 240. 241. 242. 243.

? How to give direction and force to its influence to most advantage. Modes of operation and instruments for that purpose proposed and vindicated. 66. 67. 68. 69 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 75. 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. 81. 82 83. 84. 85. 86. 87.

1 Notices of facts. 2 Monitory rules - both adapted to the businesses of the several Departments and Offices.

Add 9 Aug. 22. Operatives and Executives interrogable as to their mutual family and connections.

Arrangements prescribed by the consideration of the hostility of the Aristocratical faction, as by 1 composition of Juries. 2. Exclusion of factitious honor. 114. 115. 116. 117. 118 119. 120. 121. 122. 123 124. 125. 126. 127.

? The Democratical has every thing to fear from the Aristocratical members: the Aristocratical nothing from the Democratical

Public Opinion Tribunal General coincidence of its dcisions with those indicated by the greatest happiness principle. 4*. 5* 6*. 7*. 8* 9*.

? Enemies to the tutelary power of press and public discussion, the most mischievous enemies of the community Supreme Operative. 238. 239. 240. 241. 238 This sufficient ground for overthrowing the government. 238.

For rules for measuring depravity see Introd. Ch XI Disposition [...?] XLI. p.cxlvi.

30 July 1822

Addenda to Aristocratic Notions and Practices

1. Enter dyslogistic language for speaking to Servants etc

2. Subornation of false self-condemning confessions of misconduct and regret by fear of eventual punishment, and hope or assurance of eventual pardon. This in judicature and in quarrels between rich and poor

3 Private gratitude a sufficient warrant for voting etc against public interest.

JB_160_365.xml

Title: [[clx. 365] 1822 July 9. Constitut]

Description: [clx. 365]

1822 July 9.

Constitut. Code

Public Opinion Tribunal

Aristocratical Section notions

Aristocratical Section of the Public Opinion Tribunal Its Notions continued

18. The proper end of government is - not the securing the greatest quantity of felicity possible to the greatest number of individuals possible, but the securing property in large masses in the hands of a few

19. All reports of fact howsoever true tending to lower the higher orders especially the privileged orders in the estimation of the lower should be suppressed: and this consequence affords a sufficient rational cause for the suppression of them

20. Reports, true or false tending to represent the conduct and character of the lower orders as worse than it is ought for the opposite reason to be encouraged: that the individuals belonging to those classes may thereby appear in one anothers eyes less worthy than are the individuals of the higher orders, and thence the individuals of the higher orders more worthy: more worthy of the benefits the privileged benefits possessed by them to the exclusion of the lower orders

21 It is the interest of this Section not only that factitious honor has place, but that the quantity of it be maximized. For in proportion as factitious honor is encreased in efficiency and extent, the force /power/ of the democratical Section is lessened.

Section of the Public Opinion Tribunal Its Notions

Its notions continued

21 continued Of factitious honor the effect is to cause men to receive a quantity of respect independently of the goodness or badness of their behaviour independently of their regard or disregard for the happiness of others in such sort that he whose whole life is a course of active enmity against the happiness of others shall still have as much respect as if it had been the reverse.

The only check or counterforce which the [...?] efficiency of factitious honor has to check it is the power of the democratical section of the Public Opinion Tribunal. For as to the Aristocratical Section the wearers of the factitious honor in all its shapes compose the principal and most influential part of its members.

22. It is the interest of the makers and receivers of factitious honor that the democratical section of the Public-Opinion Tribunal be without force. It is the interest of the Members of the Democratical Section of the Public Opinion Tribunal that there be no factitious honor

23. That the Aristocrats should be exempted as far as possible not only from punishment but exposure: Democrats exposed as much as possible

JB_160_394.xml

Title: [[clx. 394] 1822 Oct. 17 Constitut]

Description: [clx. 394]

1822 Oct. 17

Constitut. Code

I Securities

Public Opinion

Sections Aristocrat

Devices

2 Opinions

Taste

Addend. Disgusting a Superlative above flagitious. This, to render taste the foundation of morals and politics - Aristocrats being the arbiters of taste.

Be this as it may in regard to interest, the inquiry requires that it be stated how the matter stands in regard to Opinions. For, in the tribunal of Opinion, the Opinions of the ruling few i.e. /and thence/ the suffrages /opinions/ of the ruling few will be continually manifesting themselves, and in the character of Securities against Misrule or in the character of causes of it will be acting with the weight which in fact belongs to them

But the opinions will be governed /determined/ by the interests: the opinions declared, by the interests felt.