1821. July 14.

Codification Offer

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The whole of the matter appropriated to the personal service of the Monarch is at

the same time appropriated to the service of the Representatives of the people:

matter of corruptive influence reserved for their own use to be applied in the

production of corrupt obsequiousness on their part in remuneration for the

sacrifice they determine to make of the greatest happiness of the greatest

number to the happiness of [...?] corrupt partnership formed between the Monarch

and themselves

Absolute Monarchy may, by possibility, if the minds of the people are kept in a

certain degree of debasement - of inanity or poisonous repletion - live for

ever. In one way or other, every limited Monarchy is, as surely as every living

individual, doomed to die. Democracy - representative democracy - is the only

Government formed by Nature for immortality: the only Government in which the

seeds of death were not sown at its birth: the only government which has nothing

to fear but from external force.

In a limited Monarchy the whole of the money levied on the people for general

purposes, together with a large portion of that which is so levied on them for

local or other general purposes, operates, upon the Representatives of the

people, whether real representatives or factitious, operates of itself and

without need of any hand to give direction to it /guide it/, in the character of

the matter of corruptive influence: that part which with reference to the

maintenance of government is necessary has that destination /operates with that

effect/: that part which is in excess has that destination and no other

If the [...? ...?] of true faith and thence of [...?] is as the quantity of money

possessed by Clergy doing something or nothing for it, they are inexcusable in

setting bounds to it: if not, in allowing any at all.

If it be in the /the unchangeable/ nature of man to hate every thing and every

body /thing by which and/ by whom he is made to suffer without any reason being

assigned why he should be so dealt with, let it be said how it should happen

that any government by which the greater number are made to suffer for the

benefit of the lesser should not to the greater /that same/ number become an

object of hatred, and in so far as is consistent with fear as well as hatred an

object of contempt, in so far as it is understood to be that which as above it

is /what it is/: and whether in the consigning to punishment by penal laws every

man who does any thing towards causing it to be an object of hatred and contempt

there by any thing that can diminish - there be any thing that can fail to

encrease, that hatred and contempt: and whether it be in the nature of the case

that in a state of things in which in spite of the whole form of government,

every man has it in his power to hold communication with every other man, it be

in the nature of the case /things/ that a government which to the greater number

is naturally an object of hatred should long continue.