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1822 Jany 24

Codification Offer

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?.5 Admission Universal

More favorable to the greatest happiness of the greatest number no ultimate state of things could reasonably be expected, under a Constitution the existence depends upon the hearty cooperation of an incensed Monarch in the business of forging shackles /manacles/ for his own hands: in which while no more than a share in the function of making laws is given to persons chosen /agents placeable and displaceable/ by the greatest number the appointment of all those on whose good will all the execution and effect can be given to them /those laws is left to depend/ is to left to him whose interest it is that no such execution and effect should be given to any of them except to those from which the share left to him of his former power will receive confirmation and encrease.

a form of government /a state of things in respect of government/ in which the government /constitution/ depends for its existence and for all the good effects expected from it depends on the existence at all times of a human being who, being of the class and name of those to whose desire no resistance is ever opposed from without and having power to engage all men in the giving fulfilment /accomplishment/ to his desires is expected to keep his conduct in a state /[...?]/ of constant opposition to the whole current of those desires to /by/ which in that situation restraint has /was/ never in any instance been found endurable, in a word in which the accomplishment of the declared end is made to /trusted to/ depend upon a state of things absolutely impossible upon a chain of events the continuance of which after the first few links is absolutely impossible.