[036-102v]

1822 Feb. 16

Codification Offer

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VI.

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The use of the rationale in the character of a standard of comparison and a test of aptitude has above been brought to view.

The draughts supposed to be sent in will each of them by the supposition be each of them furnished with its interwoven rationale. By that rationale the aptitude of each proposed arrangement its aptitude with reference to the greatest happiness of the greatest number will stand demonstrated. But in proportion as of the aptitude of this or that proposed arrangement demonstration thus given is conclusive and satisfactory, the inaptitude of every proposed /proposable and even of every imaginable/ arrangement that can stand in repugnance to it will stand demonstrated. So many draughts of rationalized Codes sent in so many of these standards already set up, with any and every of which every proposed arrangement to which it can happen to be proposed by any hand possessing a share in the legislative power may be confronted and compared: and that in what manner it is in the nature of a rationalized Code with its rationale to serve not only as a guide but /and that every such standard acts/ as a bridle to all legislative power is a truth that has been shewn above. (See Section  ). been already brought to view.

In this character it will be in the hands of subject Citizens in the character of Constituents it will give and to a vast amount additional /and to a vast amount/ force to that whatever it be which in such their character they are already in possession of. For at present on the occasion of the judgment formed by them respectively in relation to the aptitude of their proposed Representatives what have they for their guidance? absolutely nothing but such crude and indeterminate, incorrect, and incomplete and imperfectly consistent conception in relation to the several departments of the filed of legislation and government as chance has given rise to in their minds, with the addition of the naked opinions of any such persons as they may have respectively been disposed and able to take advice from: whose conception will in like manner have had an origin always similar in its nature if not always less exposed to /pregnant with/ error it is degree; and in every part of the field the judgment of both parties consultors and advisor will without any preservative any instrument of security stand exposed to the sinister influence and delusion of all those fallacies with which the whole of that field is infested.