1823 Feb. 20

Greece

Beginning

But under a system of representation having for its end in view the greatest happiness of the greatest number © a system arranged for example as in general are those that have place in the Anglo©American United States are arranged, no such purposed sacrifice of universal interest to the separate interest of a few does or ever can have place. Let a man pitch upon a Candidate who is generally regarded as the most apt of all those who are willing to be constituted delegates for the seat in question he finds in a sufficient number of others an effectual concurrence: let a man be to fix upon a Candidate on whom he could depend for the pursuing upon all occasions his the electors separate and sinister interest at the expence of every other, he would not find any one who to the disposition /will/ in question would Electors in sufficient numbers to place him in the seat.

As it is in the case of the people in their quality of Electors, on the occasion of the choice of a Delegate to be their representative in the operative Assembly, so is it in the case of those same Delegates on the occasions on which they are occupied in the choice of arrangements proposed to receive the force of law. And thus it is that the universal good is the result of the continual conflict amongst the jarring elements of separate interests, desires and endeavours. To any imaginable amount self sacrifice may in fact have place: but to the production of the greatest happiness of the greatest number not so much as a single instance of it is necessary in the general course of business.