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1821 May 14

Codification Offer

'.4. Draughtsman single

The draught in question is by the supposition in some way or other the work of the possessor or possessor [of the] supreme power in the state. For the production of it the possessor or possessors of that power may have had, or not have had, recourse to a hand or hands in a situation respectively subordinate to their own.

These distinctions noted the general case will be found resolvable into these five /seven/ more particular subordinate ones.

I. Case 1. Functionary on whose will the efficiency of the draught depends, one: namely the Monarch. Draughtsman that same person: by that same person the sort of work in question - an all-comprehensive Code with its rationale framed. The case is a conceivable one: for the existence of a man with a hundred eyes or a hundred hands is a conceivable one. /In that case to the purpose in question/ In a word the government a Monarchy: and the hand by which the work is executed that of the Monarch himself.

In this case which of two objects the work will have for its end in view - the greatest happiness of the greatest number of the greatest happiness of the only being whose happiness has any claim to regard is of the number of those questions by each of which its own answer is conveyed.