1822 May 10

Economy etc Text?

12 May 1822 Quere in what place if any shall use be made of the matter of this

sheet?

6 The greatest happiness of the greatest number requires that the hand or hands

in which the supreme Executive power is placed be subordinate to the supreme

legislative body in all modes of subordination: namely 1. by power of cessation:

2. by power of command on pain of punishment. 3. by power of punishment. 4. by

power of dislocation but not 5. by non-concurrence.

Principle of exclusion of Anarchy Anarchy-inhibiting principle

Q. The supreme legislative power and the /a/ supreme super Executive power why in

the same hand?

A. Suppose for simplicity of conception suppose the Supreme Executive power to be

in the hand of a single functionary. If he were not displaceable by the supreme

legislative functionary or body of functionaries their power might by him be

reduced to impotence If he were not punishable by that same legislative body, he

might before the dislocation could be effected produce mischief indefinitely

intense, extensive and irremediable. He might for example put to death the

members of it in any number. If, so far as depended upon their power and the

orders given in consequence he were dislocated - he might refuse to submitt to

those same orders.

7. The greatest happiness of the greatest number requires that the Office of

Supreme Executive Functionary be in the hand of a single individual. Stile him

for example President /Supreme Director/ of the Commonwealth. Reasons 1.

Principle Responsibility securing principle 2 Expence minimizing principle. 3.

Complication inhibiting principle.