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1822 June 18 Consult 1823 June 30th

Economy etc

Ch.1 Expository matter

10. or 1. Appropriate aptitude what - do. with relation to the end.

11. or 2. In a functionary its three branches, what

1. Moral.

2. Intellectual.

3. Active

12. Of intellectual

1. - Scientific - knowledge.

2. - Judiciary - judgment

13. For securing such aptitude, means employable by Constitutional law, are Securities for do. - supposed efficient causes of do.

.2. Good government - its most immediate means

14 or 2 I. Expence of Government is evil produced by do. endeavouring or not to produce greater good.

15. Examples of such expence.

1. Taxation.

2. Punishment.

3. Reward, pecuniary etc.

4. Obligation in which obligation or │   │ faculty included are included the three above

16. 5. Factitious dignity: i.e. respect given to one, at the expence of the rest, dignified and undignified.

17. Matter of superfluous expenditure by functionaries at the expence of the community is matter of depredation: depredators, all those who, knowing it to be superfluous, are knowingly concerned in the making of it.

18. Depredation simple, is where more loss is not occasioned to the community than profit to depredators aggravated where more is etc.

19. For purpose of punishment and other means of privation, the loss is the proper standard of reference: in that case │   │ the evil: by itself the profit is great.