1822 April 17

Rid Yourselves

Lett. 18. Relinquishment Plan

' 6. Case V. Subjection uncontested

2. Buyers foreigners

The same fruit the [...?] /[...?] the [...?] the [...?] it wide the

distinction between their [...?] former rulers more than others are [...?] to [...?]

give: and d o less.

The [...?] [...?] will for respect [...?]

Already /For example/ for example in Congress those who are near

enough to the spot to take /make/ a detailed survey of it, a suspicion, I am told has

arisen, that in the Senate they have a useless /sort of/ House of Lords: not as

elsewhere an implacable enemy and sure preventer of every thing that is not bad, but

a needless and useless delayer of many things that are good, and at any rate a

useless source of expence. /waste of time and money/ Of the balance between profit

and loss in that business I pretend not to form any judgement: I have no sufficient

means for it. But under /in/ that government in which the People are rulers over

their rulers if any alteration that in his eyes is a good one presents itself to any

man's conception, the probability of its obtaining acceptance is in his scale in the

direct rules of the utility /goodness/ of it: whereas /while/ in a government in

which there is a House of Lords, without anything /with nothing above it/ or with a

Monarch above it, as to acceptance for any thing good all probability is out of the

question, certainty of non-acceptance is entire.

If there be a difference under a Monarchy the improbability of adoption for any

thing conducive to the greatest happiness of the greatest number is rather less

without than with a House of Lords. By weakness or caprice, even in that station a

single man may be led thus to promote the happiness even by augmenting the ower, of

the many: of a multitude /number/ of men thus high in power, the greater part never

can.