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1821 Decr 5

Codification Offer

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I. Monarchs interest

If for want of such a support his own individual security be lessened it may be his interest to allow to a portion of his subjects a quantity /mass/ of power being in such sort dependent on his own, as not liable to be taken back again by himself. The persons to whom such partially independent power is allowed become thereby members of a particular body © of that sort of political body which is stiled an aristocratical one: /body:/ or in one word an aristocracy

If there be any other sinister interest the continuance or establishment of which would be contributory /subservient/ to his own sinister interest it is his interest to give as the case may be existence or support to it.

So likewise, as to interest©begotten prejudice, authority©begotten prejudice, and original relative intellectual weakness

Under a Monarch In so far as sinister interest operates with effect, misrule has place bad government is the result: bad government, or in one word misrule

In a certain sense of the word instrument, force, intimidation, corruption and delusion. Force and intimidation are necessary instruments of good as well as of bad government.

Force applies to the physical faculties of the person on whom or thing on which it is exercised: intimidation is the force of evil apprehended to be applied in the character of punishment: corruption is the application of the matter of reward to a sinister purpose: delusion is the production of erroneous opinion /judgment/ or erroneous conception by instruments working on the imagination: by the same instrument corruption and delusion may be made to take effect on the same subject

Thus by a military force /body/ /establishment/ with its decorations /trappings/ force, intimidation, corruption and delusion are produced.