1822 Feb. 10

Constitutional Code

Supreme Constitutive who

'2. Means of Government

True it is that as in the case of the supposed individual not chosen by the governed nor by any portion of the governed so by every individual chosen by them would his own happiness in the same way be endeavoured to be encreased whatsoever should become of their happiness. But as in the case supposed each such member of the ruling few not only was placed but at a short interval is displaceable by the subject many, what he sees from first to last is that any considerable and lasting sacrifice of their happiness to his own is impracticable: and that for any attempt to effect it, he would at any rater after his departure out of such situation be liable for such his misconduct to be punished by persons appointed by them for that purpose, in the same way that during his continuance in power others were liable to be punished at his hands. He will not therefore in any such way throw away /expend/ any of his labour /in waste/: he will not encounter any such risk.