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1822 Jany 31 B ulto

Codification Offer

ulto

?.5. Admission Universal

?.5 Members Unapt

Inserendumnae? [?]

1. Under any other government than a representative democracy, having for its object or end in view the greatest happiness of the greatest number, only under /in/ a particularly favorable state of things, and ”that• necessarily of short continuance could any such Proposal as the present, and in particular this leading feature in it possess any chance of acceptance capable of constituting an equivilant for the labour necessary to /employed in/ the publication of it

Accordingly it is in the disposition of that same greatest number that in the present instance all expectation of acceptance from /at the hands of/ the Constituted authorities.

The case is that it is only under such a form of government that for any considerable length of time if at all it is possible, consistently with the nature of man, that the greatest happiness of the greatest number should by the operative rulers be in their practice actually taken for the object and end in view of their government.

A discussion of this sort would, if it had been possible been avoided: since /forasmuch/ as it were by a side [...?] passes over the most important /essential/ part of the field of Constitutional law. But consistently with the giving to this part of the proposal an adequate support in the shape of a set of reasons, it has been found not [...?]. Of these reasons however A very compressed indication, not /very far short of/ a full and adequate development is the utmost that the nature of the present design can admitt of.