1819 Dec r 4

Bentham’s Radical &c

Note (a)

Prelim

II. Necessity

(a) (really existing constitution) But for the American United States Englishmen would not know /have known/ what a really existing Constitution is: nor therefore would they have understood clearly that they themselves have no such thing, and that therefore all those boasts which out[?] themselves in the cry of Glorious Constitution! Matchless Constitution! and so forth are either self-delusion or impostors.