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1822 June 28

Constitut Code

Securities for I Moral

Ch Factitious Dignity excluded

1. Note that in the case here in question the reward is extraordinary reward rendered in consideration of extraordinary service. This will be either service rendered by an individual at large by an individual who was not by any official situation laid under the obligation of rendering the service or service rendered by a public functionary over and above all such service as in virtue of his office he stood bound to render.

2. Note likewise that the question here is - not between reward in other shapes and reward in the shape of dignity; but only between reward in the shape of natural dignity, and reward in the shape of factitious dignity

Cases there are in which the nature of the service is such that to constitute an adequate inducement in relation to it an inducement of sufficient strength to cause the service to be rendered dignity can not in any shape be sufficient: reward in a more substantial and universally acceptable shape, viz. in the shape of money - is necessary. Take for example extraordinary service rendered at the hazard of life limb and health in the line of military service. Accordingly in the wisest and most frugal of all governments as yet in existence - the government of the United States, for the procurement of such service reward in this shape is not grudged. To /For/ the widow and orphan of him who is killed in the performance of such service a pension is profited. So likewise for him by whom in the performance of service in that shape a limb has been lost or other comparable bodily damage sustained.

3 Note likewise that when Factitious Dignity is spoken of as a species of reward marked for exclusion by it is meant Factitious Dignity considered in the shape and manner in which it is ordinarily conferred in Monarchies - i.e. without the collection and publication of evidence probative of the existence and indicative of the nature and shape of the service, in remuneration of which it is desired that it should be understood to have been conferred.