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1822 May 10
Economy etc Text?
Minimal[?] = marginal[?] location
Examples and Observations - i.e. Facts observed.
Quere if not superseded this sheet May 12?
1. The greatest happiness of the greatest number requires that with reference to
the possessor or possessors of the supreme operative power the constitutive
power be in the hands of the greatest number, viz of apt hands: apt in respect
of literary acquirements.
2 The greatest happiness of the greatest number requires that the supreme
operative power legislative and Super Executive should be in the hands of a body
corporate body, the Members thereof located by Election performed by so many
assemblages of such of the Members of the whole community as are endowed with
adequate appropriate aptitude, relation had to such their functions: the
assemblages being determined by the local Districts which they inhabit and each
Member being elected by the apt inhabitants of one such District: no inhabitant
voting /deliver his vote/ in Districts more than one: each such Member being
intituled /stiled/ a Deputy or say a Delegate of the People: and the whole
Assembly the Congress of the Deputies of the people: or say for shortness the
Congress
3. The greatest happiness of the greatest number requires that the supreme
legislative power being in the hands of a Congress composed of the Deputies or
Delegates of the People located as above, the supreme super-executive power be
in these same hands Principle Anarchy-inhibiting principle
4. The greatest happiness of the greatest number requires that the powers of the
Delegates of the people be exercised by the whole number sitting and acting in
an undivided body: no other divisions having place but such as are effected by
that same body itself: by its forming out of itself for example under the name
of Committees Sections out of itself, each Section subordinate and responsible
to the whole.
Principles. 1 Delay-prohibiting principle. 2. Expence-prohibiting principle. 3.
Complication prohibiting principle.
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