11 Jan y 1817

Necessity Cat.

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1. Theory

§ {2}. Forms of Government

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who[?] is[?] not[?] prepared[?] measure[?] of the power is chanced[?]

Class { 1 for and Nomination[?] to office[?]

{ 2 […?] - Judicial in […?]

 1 Power of classification: Power imperative v exercisable

{1. in […?] - is or

{2. in classes: in which case, in[?] the need of classifying or aggregativeness[?] power[?].

2. Physical power legalized: viz. 1. in […?] 2. in inversion[?].

Q. 2. The supreme power you speak of is supreme political power. What is political power?

A. I can not answer you. No proper answer can be given to such a question. Political power is a species of power: but power itself is not a species of any thing.

Q. 3. Well then to give to our conceptions the necessary of determinateness, give to the word whatsoever other mode of exposition it may be susceptible of.

A. Well then - Power political power is a relative term: its correlative is subjection. Power on one part is constituted by subjection on the other: momentary power by momentary subjection: permanent power by the habit /habitual/ of subjection.

Q.4. The idea of subjection seems a complex one: is it not so? if so, what are it elements?

A. Obedience and submission or non-resistance. Idealism is the state of the active faculty on the part[?], of the subject party and supposed an act of command performed by the possessor of the power: if in so far as the act commanded consists in motion the command is positive and the obedience not only an act /itself the state/ of the active faculty, but itself active: in so far as the act commanded is not - i.e. abstinence from motion the command is negative and is termed a prohibition: and the obedience through the act of the active faculty is passive: in so far as the state of the subject party is non-resistant the powers may be termed immediately operative power or power operating upon the purely passive faculty.