1822 Oct. 21

Tripoli. Securities against Misrule.

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Preliminary Explanations

?.3. Misrule its causes

Preliminary Explanations:- General and preliminary Observations shewing the design and plan of the proposed system of Securities against Misrule

Misrule is the general and all-comprehensive denomination, by which the evil, against which it is the endeavour of the here-proposed arrangements to apply a remedy, may be designated.

Misrule can not in any other way be so clearly comprehended as by reference to Good Rule to which it is correspondent and opposite.

Rule or say Government is good, in so far as it is contributory to the greatest happiness of the greatest number of the members of the community in question:- in as far as, taking that for its object, it is successful in the pursuit of that same object.

Rule may therefore come under the denomination of misrule in either of two ways /accounts/: either by taking for its object the happiness of any other number than the greatest: or by being more or less unsuccessful in its endeavours to attain that object.

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