6 July 1811 30 V. ad Juperbriam

Fallacies Ch. 1

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2. Grant of privilege

2. Grant of privilege from the sovereignty to a portion of the community in the character of subjects.

If by /in/ the grant here in question the affect foreseen at the time was the making any clear defalcation from the aggregate happiness of the community as above, it ought not at that time to have been made.

On the other hand /Nor on the other hand /in the contrary case// as little ought an

And /Moreover/ on the other hand as to any proposed change unless from or on occasion of it a clear addition in some shape or other to the /that/ aggregate mass be the sufficiently probable result the change itself, consisting in the abolition of the contract or some alteration made in the effect of it, ought not to have been made. And by the supposition that portion of the community which had been a party to the contract being as much a portion, and the as large a portion of the community as any other composed of equal numbers, the advantage supposed to accrue to the whole community taken in the aggregate could not accrue to it but by the further supposition that for any disadvantage resulting to such contracting portion adequate compensation has been made.

Under this head are included all those more particular cases which exhibit the sovereignty in the act of contracting with this or that individual or assemblage of individuals, for money or money's worth to be supplied or service in this or that other shape rendered, on the other.