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Codification Offer

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Members unapt

Self©regard predominant

The Stuart [...? ...?] the despotism in the reigns of the two first Guelphs John Wilkes and the American war under the reign of the 3d: by the false terror it imposed[?] the French revolutionary war brought it up to its present pitch, above which it can not soar but to be precipitated.

In every country, at all times, all laws all arrangements of government have had for their object and end in view the greatest good of those by whom they have been /were/ made. This proposition is included in that in which the general predominance of self©regard is asserted

To this position even the Anglo©American United States present no exception. For there, those /over those/ by whom the whole of the operative power of government is exercised have over them /stand/ those by whom immediately or unimmediately the whole of the constitutive power is exercised: the possessors of the operative power being all of them placed and at short intervals displaceable by the body of the people in the /their/ quality of Electors: so that by making and unmaking at pleasure those by whom the laws and other arrangements are made, sooner or later they /they in effect/ make and unmake at pleasure the laws and other arrangements themselves, and the result is /thus it is/ that thereby by the greatest number the /all/ laws and arrangements are constantly directed to the accomplishment of the greatest good of that same greatest number, according to such conception as they form of it