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1822 July 1

Constitut. Code Rationale

Supreme Operative

1. Moral

2. Intellectuals

Conclusion

What in this /such/ case is the measure of the quality of badness or say depravity in the human mind? Is it the quantity of human misery produced? Is it the degree of steadiness with which the probability of its being produced is contemplated, and the fixedness of the determination to persevere in the endeavour to give it existence /to it/? Is it the absence of that indigence /distress/ which in some cases is by universal /general/ acknowledgment sufficient to render depredation and even intentional homicide justifiable? With these criterions /considerations/ in mind compare the best of Monarchs with the worst of /most/ private and punishable malefactors - see whether as in the scale of political power so in the scale of moral depravity, the place of the ever unpunishable malefactor is not above that of the punishable malefactor /evildoer/.

As it is in regard to /in the case of/ that situation by which the largest mass of political power is conferred so is it in every inferior one The probable quantity of virtue in a man is not in the direct but in the inverse ratio of his altitude in the composite scale composed of power opulence, and factitious dignity

That which goes /is known/ commonly by the name of robbery is robbery without established /unestablished for want of/ power. Every Government other than a Democracy is robbery /established/ by means of established power.